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| Abstract Title: | Skills for Guiding Students’ Career Success in a Physics Class |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Students develop skills throughout their undergraduate physics classes that become useful for their future career practices. These skills or competencies can be categorized between universally applicable [1] or content-based skills [2]. Students in the algebra based introductory physics course were interviewed about their perceptions of skills and competencies they might need in their future careers. Thematic analysis of these interviews showed that students mainly mentioned skills into two main categories; universally applicable skills like time management and communication skills and content-based skills like knowledge of course concepts. Motivated to make their introductory physics experience more useful for a diverse set of majors, we are consciencely designing the classroom experiences to develop these skills for their future. That is, these building blocks and tools will be effective for their future career success. By identifying and incorporating the skills and competencies into the daily physics curriculum, we can attend to students' career aspirations and shape their recognition of the physics experience as useful. |
| Footnote: | [1] F. Hernández-Pina, F. Monroy, Psicología Educativa, V21,1, Pg 11-16, 2015. [2] H.J, Passow, and C.H. Passow, J. Eng. Educ., 106: 475-526. 2017. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 |
| Poster Number: | B11 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Camila Atencio Florida International University Miami, FL 33199 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Emiliano Garcia, Tomas Gonzalez, Emely Lopez, Sony Raymond, Idaykis Rodriguez STEM Transformation Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199 |
