2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Student Learning Outcomes in Two Fundamental ECE Courses with Multi-Modal Delivery During COVID Response

Presented at Effective Teaching and Learning, and Post-Pandemic Classrooms

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the learning outcomes of students in two sophomore-level ECE core courses (signals & systems and introductory programming) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during COVID response. Both courses were offered in the spring of 2021 with multi-modal delivery. In each course, students were self-selected into either the in-person or online section, and both sections were taught by the same instructor.

We analyze the performance of students attending in-person lectures vs. online lectures in each course. Categories for comparison include scores for homework assignments, quizzes (when applicable), midterm exams, and the final exam. Additionally, we examine students’ satisfaction with their final course letter grades by their decision to choose the pass/no-pass grade option.

Our findings show that in both courses, students in the in-person group performed better than
those in the online group. Student satisfaction was also higher for the in-person group, as
indicated by the percentage of those who chose the pass/no-pass grade option.

Authors

Prof. Olga Mironenko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-185X University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [biography]

Dr. Olga Mironenko is a Teaching Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received a specialist degree in Physics from Omsk F.M. Dostoevsky State University, Russia in 2009, and she received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Delaware in 2020. Her current interests include improvement of introductory analog signal processing and power systems courses, training for graduate teaching assistants, and mentoring of under-represented students in ECE.
Prof. Yuting W. Chen University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [biography]

Dr. Yuting W. Chen received the B.S. degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009 and 2011, all in Electrical Engineering. She is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under-served students in STEM, professional development for graduate students, service learning, and curriculum innovation in computing.

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