Student Learning Dispositions: Multidimensional Profiles Highlight Important Differences among Undergraduate STEM Honors Thesis Writers

Autor/inn/en	Dowd, Jason E.; Thompson, Robert J., Jr.; Schiff, Leslie; Haas, Kelaine; Hohmann, Christine; Roy, Chris; Meck, Warren; Bruno, John; Reynolds, Julie A.
Titel	Student Learning Dispositions: Multidimensional Profiles Highlight Important Differences among Undergraduate STEM Honors Thesis Writers
Quelle	In: CBE - Life Sciences Education, 18 (2019) 2, Artikel 28 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1931-7913
DOI	10.1187/cbe.18-07-0141
Schlagwörter	STEM Education; Theses; Undergraduate Students; Correlation; Self Efficacy; Student Attitudes; Student Motivation; Epistemology; Profiles; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Writing (Composition); Scientific Research; Capstone Experiences; Self Concept; Grade Point Average; Gender Differences; Ethnicity; Majors (Students); Honors Curriculum; North Carolina; West Virginia; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? STEM; These; Korrelation; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Schülerverhalten; Schulische Motivation; Erkenntnistheorie; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Schreibübung; Selbstkonzept; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ethnizität
Abstract	Various personal dimensions of students--particularly motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and epistemic beliefs--can change in response to teaching, affect student learning, and be conceptualized as learning dispositions. We propose that these learning dispositions serve as learning outcomes in their own right; that patterns of interrelationships among these specific learning dispositions are likely; and that differing constellations (or learning disposition profiles) may have meaningful implications for instructional practices. In this observational study, we examine changes in these learning dispositions in the context of six courses at four institutions designed to scaffold undergraduate thesis writing and promote students' scientific reasoning in writing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We explore the utility of cluster analysis for generating meaningful learning disposition profiles and building a more sophisticated understanding of students as complex, multidimensional learners. For example, while students' self-efficacy beliefs about writing and science increased across capstone writing courses on average, there was considerable variability at the level of individual students. When responses on all of the personal dimensions were analyzed jointly using cluster analysis, several distinct and meaningful learning disposition profiles emerged. We explore these profiles in this work and discuss the implications of this framework for describing developmental trajectories of students' scientific identities. (As Provided).
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