Developing and implementing a comprehensive survey tool to understand persistence in engineering education
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2024
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Dick, Brian
Rivera, Kodi
Sjoerdsma, Michael
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Engineering education faces significant challenges related to addressing student persistence and retention within engineering programs. Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are stated areas of priority for post-secondary institutions (PSIs) in British Columbia (BC) with the goal to ensure that students of all backgrounds, identities, and demographics are provided an opportunity to thrive without compromise. However, there continues to be a lack of appropriate, desegregated demographic data that can inform how well this goal is being achieved by engineering programs at public PSIs in BC.
The purpose of this poster is to describe the second-stage of the development and delivery of a survey instrument that intends to fill this information void, and more broadly capture the engineering student experience from their entry into first-year through to graduation.
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Poster presented at the 2024 Canadian Engineering Education Association Conference. Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Conference dates: June 15-19, 2024.