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Vadapalli, S.K. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5687-7405, Vanheusden, F.J. ORCID: 0000-0003-2369-6189, Butt, A.T., Abdelgaied, A. ORCID: 0000-0003-0066-1688, Mansfield, N. ORCID: 0000-0001-6769-1721 and Griggs, K.E. ORCID: 0000-0002-1962-9613,
2024.
Thriving through trials and tribulations: the impact of the ‘Grand Challenge’ on engineering student resilience skills.
European Journal of Engineering Education.
ISSN 0304-3797
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Abstract
Resilience is considered of significant importance for student attainment and work-readiness. This study investigated the impact of Grand Challenge (GC) – an industry-based learning assessment for 1st and 2nd year Engineering students – on student resilience. Resilience scores and psychological distress were measured before and after the GC through questionnaires presented to students. Focus groups were conducted to assess GC’s effect on student resilience qualitatively. Resilience scores in the questionnaires decreased slightly after GC, possibly due to less students completing the post-GC questionnaire. Interestingly, when discussing GC in the focus groups, students did feel GC helped them develop their resilience and understood the impact of resilience on their future career. Overall, the findings help establish GC as a challenge-based learning (CBL) intervention and the extent to which such CBL assessments may affect student resilience skills. The study provides the groundwork for future resilience training and assessment in higher engineering education through CBL events.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | European Journal of Engineering Education | ||||||
| Creators: | Vadapalli, S.K., Vanheusden, F.J., Butt, A.T., Abdelgaied, A., Mansfield, N. and Griggs, K.E. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| Date: | 28 August 2024 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0304-3797 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology Schools > School of Social Sciences |
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| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 29 Aug 2024 10:50 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2024 10:50 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52126 |
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