Pathways of Persistence: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of a Social Belonging Intervention for First-Year Women in Engineering Two Years Later (Poster 9)

• In Event: Thursday Poster Session 12:40 pm
  In Poster Session: Engineering and Computer Science Education Posters

Abstract

Women and women of color in undergraduate engineering programs experience a white patriarchal culture exhibited by racism, sexism, and other factors that decrease their persistence. Directly disrupting this process, our past work has demonstrated that a social belonging intervention that helps normalize students’ struggles as temporary and surmountable led to improvements in course grades, class attendance, and persistence for women in engineering. The current mixed-methods study a) examines a social belonging intervention among first-year Black and Latina women students into their second year, (b) gains a deeper understanding of how participants engage with and are qualitatively impacted by the intervention, and (c) creates a working model for how women persist through their engineering programs over the first two years.

Authors

• Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh

• Nelson O.O. Zounlome, University of Pittsburgh

• Ketura Elie, University of Pittsburgh

• Kevin R. Binning, University of Pittsburgh

• Charlie Diaz, University of Pittsburgh