Title: Curricular and Academic Analytics in Electrical Engineering at New Mexico State University
Abstract:
In this talk, we present some recent work combining analysis of curricular structure and student performance in Electrical Engineering at New Mexico State University. First, we discuss the effect of student DFWs on time to graduation and find that, on average, student graduation is extended by one semester for each DFW grade earned. Second, we present ongoing work on the correlation of student grades between classes. We find that grade correlation is compressed to a relatively small range of correlation coefficients and reveal some surprising results for courses that both do and do not share a prerequisite structure. Third, we present ongoing work on the modeling of our BSEE curriculum at a topic level. We accumulate references to topics on a course level, resulting in an analysis that reveals how many times course X references any topic (either directly or through a hierarchy of topic relationships) from course Y and again reveal some surprising results for courses that both do and do not share a prerequisite structure.
Speaker:
Laura Boucheron
Associate Professor
Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Mexico State University
Date/Time: Friday, July 23, 2:00PM MST (Arizona), 5:00PM EDT
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMq10e8r7p4&ab_channel=HigherEducationAnalytics