WIP: Self-tracking Time-On-Task to promote self-organization skills in an Undergraduate Engineering Design Course
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2025
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This is a work in progress. Time management, a key self-regulation ability, is crucial for students' academic achievement. Effective time management skills have been linked to academic success in Massive Open Online Courses. However, this has not been fully tested in a typical residential college setting where students are living on campus and working time bleeds in their personal time. In addition, research reveals that effective studying behaviors begin with becoming aware of your particular learning processes since we know that notions of time among students in higher education vary. The following work-in-progress research endeavor showcases a data-driven decision-making method for undergraduate engineering students to address the time spent on various design activities in an engineering design team-based course at an R1 institution in the United States. We adapted an intake form to report hours weekly in an engineering design course. For the first stage, using student input, we translated this data into individual dashboards that were returned to the student teams every two weeks. For the second stage, we plan to conduct interviews to understand the process. A further implementation of the tool involves using the data to make data-driven decisions at the curricular and planning level for instructors. Findings can be translated into the many engineering-design courses required by the ABET accreditation agency in the United States.
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Engineering design education, Learning analytics, Self-regulated learning, Time-on-task