As a student, it’s sometimes helpful to see your academic situation from the professors’ point of view. It’s also valuable to note the fact that the educators are sometimes as flummoxed by students’ flailings and failings as the students are. When bright young things who were stoked to dive on into their pursuit of knowledge at the beginning of the year, are crushed and demoralized by the time spring break rolls around and are walking out and switching majors, the students and the profs need to figure out what in the hell happened.
Via Tomorrow’s Professor Blog comes this article by Mica A. Hutchison-Green, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education at Northwestern University. Most of that previous sentence means Mica is interested in the education of engineering students and wrote an article about why they lose confidence partway through their undergraduate degrees and end up changing majors.
The article is written for educators, but it’s relevant for students as well, regardless of their field of study. It explains to the instructors why the freshmen engineering majors lose confidence in themselves academically and how the situation can be avoided and/or reversed.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
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