Browsing by Author "Astudillo, Gabriel"

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    Lacking time: A case study of student and faculty perceptions of academic workload in the COVID-19 pandemic
    (2023) Hilliger Carrasco, Isabel; Astudillo, Gabriel; Baier, Jorge
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    Social ties, mental well-being and academic self-regulation. Exploring effects through Structural Equation Modeling
    (American Society for Engineering Education, 2023) Astudillo, Gabriel; Hilliger, Isabel; Baier, Jorge; Olmedo Saavedra, Sofía Helena María
    © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023.A long tradition of studies in both psychology and sociology has shown that social ties have positive effects on mental well-being of both the population in general and in educational contexts in particular. Specifically, researchers argue that mental well-being is systematically related to students' academic self-regulation. However, it is not clear how these three constructs are related, and what direct and indirect effects may exist from social ties to academic self-regulation. In the context of engineering education, this question is especially relevant because the literature has documented gaps in the formation of ties of minority social groups -such as women or ethnic groups- which could have effects on their mental well-being and their academic self-regulation. This work proposes a theoretical model in which the sense of belonging and sense of mattering have effects on mental well-being, while mental well-being has effects on students' academic self-regulation. This theoretical model was tested by using structural equation modeling, with data from an online survey applied to 1,872 engineering undergraduate students during the first semester of 2022. The main fit indicators of the model with the empirical data satisfactorily meet the cut-off criteria established (RMSEA=0.041; SRMR=0.038; CFI=0.998; TLI=0.998). The central effects proposed in the resulting theoretical model are statistically significant, both from the sense of belonging and mattering towards mental well-being, and from it towards academic self-regulation. This implies that there is an indirect effect from the sense of belonging towards academic self-regulation.
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    Teacher Adoption of a Hybrid Learning Model in Vulnerable Secondary Schools
    (2022) Barahona, Camila; Lippi, Luis; Rodriguez, Maria Fernanda; Astudillo, Gabriel; Hilliger Carrasco, Isabel
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    The Well-being Teaching Assistant: A Proactive Approach to Caring for Students with Academic and Personal Difficulties in Massive Courses
    (American Society for Engineering Education, 2023) Baier, Jorge A.; Hilliger, Isabel; Hidalgo, Ximena; Piña, Matías; Astudillo, Gabriel
    © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023.Since the covid pandemic, some higher education institutions have promoted a flexible evaluation approach for students who face a variety of problems. Instructors willing to implement such flexibilizations face an important challenge: making themselves aware of students going through hard times. This evidence-based practice paper presents an overview and a preliminary evaluation of the well-being teaching assistant (WTA), an approach to facilitating communication, suggesting and documenting flexibilizations, and providing support for students going through difficult times in high-enrolment courses. WTAs are regular members of the teaching assistant staff, but they use an early warning system to identify potential students at risk of failure, initiate communication using supportive language, and take action by suggesting flexibilization or providing academic support for students facing challenges. WTAs have been incorporated into 27 courses at a large school of engineering in Latin America, during 2022, and have been positively evaluated by students. One of the main current challenges of the approach is scalability.
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    Towards Effective Blended Learning Through the Eyes of Students: A Survey Study in Transition into Face-to-Face Education
    (2022) Astudillo, Gabriel; Hilliger Carrasco, Isabel; Rodriguez, Fernanda; Baier, Jorge
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    WIP: Exploring differences in student sense of belonging inside and outside the engineering classroom
    (American Society for Engineering Education, 2022) Hilliger Carrasco, Isabel; Baier Aranda, Jorge Andrés; De Los Rios, Maria Javiera; Astudillo, Gabriel