This paper demonstrates that when education programs are delivered as if all students have identical learning styles and needs, the students with unique learning styles are put at a disadvantage. On the other handed the authors also describe how the application of digital technology, in particular, the Internet of Things (IoT), is making inclusion possible and democratized education affordable.
This research provides data driven insights that can be used by engineering educators to better understand distinct segments of undergraduate students. Three clusters emerged that delineated students into three distinct typologies: Steadiness Compliance (SC); Influencing Steadiness (IS) and Dominance Influencing (DI) typology. This affirms once again that students are unique and individual differences require different teaching and learning approaches.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), drawing their interpretation from the 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII, states that an employer may not use an employment or hiring practice that, even though neutral on its face and applied to all applicants or employees equally, disproportionately impacts members of protected categories, including divisions by gender, race, disability or veteran status.
The TTI Success Insights 2021 disparate impact study examined behaviors, motivators, Hartman, DNA 23, DNA 25, and Emotional Quotient assessments to determine whether our assessments create any posibility of contributing significant differences with regard to relevant protected classes during an employment or hiring process. This USA only study found that significant contributions related to the tools themselves are unlikely to be introduced.
Effective interdisciplinary research (IR) teams require skills of collaboration, sharing, and abilities to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines. Pre-post data was collected using three learning modules designed to support the development of collaboration and teamwork skills in the context of IR. Results showed (1) participants learned and practiced essential collaborative skills in authentic contexts; (2) training modules were valued and helped participants recognize the important role that personal dispositional characteristics have on IR teams; (3) participants’ confidence in adapting to differences among team members increased; and (4) participants recognized that effective collaboration requires intentionality. This paper also introduces the concept of dispositional distancing.
A growing number of VAA’s are running their own internal research projects to gain new insights and to “own” the findings they share with clients. Peter Meyers, through this case study, describes eight characteristics of strategically oriented mid-level leaders.