2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Assessing Resilience as a Virtue in Learners: Development of a New Scale for Academic Resilience

Presented at Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

Resilience is a learner disposition that serves as an aspect of the virtue of fortitude. While many measures exist that examine resilience, few do so in an educational context. Existing scales of academic resilience (e.g., ARS-30) tend to measure resilience as a process by which persons overcome adversity. However, resilience also enables students to achieve their goals and improve their learning outcomes. Factors indicative of this process, like self-efficacy, adaptive coping, exploration, and willingness to change learning approaches when needed, are not measured in the ARS-30 or other current resilience scales. The proposed Values Resilience Scale (VRI) under study measures resilience as a process that enables one to overcome academic adversity so as to achieve one’s fullest academic potential. Such a measure would allow educators to identify students who may be hindered from reaching their utmost potential through their lack of academic resilience, and help students and faculty better integrate the virtue of resilience into student learning experiences. This paper examines the development, reliability and validity of the VRI.

Authors

Paul Marlowe [biography]

College student living life to the max. Interests in the field of psychology and intersections with learning.
Dr. Stephen T. Frezza http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-5246-3061 Franciscan University of Steubenville [biography]

Deacon Steve Frezza, PSEM is a professor of Software Engineering and director of the Software Engineering program at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, OH. His research interests include Global Software Engineering, Affective Domain
Joanne Storm Gallagher Franciscan University of Steubenville
Dr. Marita Anne O'Brien Franciscan University of Steubenville [biography]

Marita A. O'Brien is an associate professor of psychology at Franciscan University in Steubenville with a specialization in engineering psychology. She earned her Ph.D. in engineering psychology with a minor in Cognitive Aging from Georgia Tech, along with an M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Colorado and an A.B. in Math/Economics from Duke University. Her primary research focuses on investigating differences in everyday technology use based on variables such as age and general technology background. She is also interested in disaster resilience and residential preparation for disasters along with the development of resilience among college students. She is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). Prior to her academic career, she spent more than 10 years advising Fortune 500 clients on the design of customer interfaces at Deloitte Consulting and Morgan Stanley & Company.
Sabrina J. Bierstetel Franciscan University of Steubenville

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