2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Work in Progress: KLIQED, A Feedback Tool for Fostering Peer Engagement during Student Oral Presentations

Presented at Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 5

Oral communication skills are important in all academic disciplines (e.g. liberal arts, science and engineering) and hiring decisions. In many college courses, oral communication skills are often assessed through student presentations. When requiring peer feedback, many instructors observe distractions, a lack of engagement, and low quantity and quality of feedback from non-presenting students. We developed a tool called KLIQED which offers a mnemonic template for students to use and comment in specific areas of the presentations they are attending or watching. The tool is unique in that it is specifically intended for use during oral presentations when attention and good listening skills are essential for students to be able to provide strong peer feedback. The intuition behind the acronym is to help the presentations resonate or “click” with students in the audience. This work-in-progress introduces the KLIQED tool along with its rationale, a template, emerging evidence on its effectiveness from students’ perspectives, and tips for instructors. Future work includes survey data analysis and a content analysis of the peers’ comments collected from completed KLIQED sheets to further assess the effectiveness of the tool.

Authors

Dr. Gbetonmasse B. Somasse http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-1274-028X Worcester Polytechnic Institute [biography]

Gbetonmasse Somasse is a faculty member in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and a Master's in statistics. His research interests are in applied econometrics, technology and development, program evaluation, and higher education. In teaching and learning, he is interested in student motivation, experiential learning, and critical reflection to promote active and more intentional learning. Previously, Somasse was a senior economist statistician at the Central Bank of West African States.
Dr. Melissa Wrobel University of Michigan [biography]

Melissa is a Lecturer IV in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the University of Michigan. Within BME, Melissa primarily teaches BME 221 (“Biophysical Chemistry and Thermodynamics”) and BME 450 (“Biomedical Engineering Design”). In Winter 2021, Melissa launched a new, biochemically themed section of BME 450 (a one-semester capstone) that allowed students to explore problems with combination products (medical device + drug and/or biological) and design novel drug delivery solutions. Melissa also teaches an introductory design course (ENGR 100) in the first-year program about biotechnology and human values. In Winter 2022, Melissa launched a new section of ENGR 100 called "Design in Reverse: Dissecting Modern Medical Devices." Melissa is the faculty advisor to Michigan's student chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the president of the southeastern Michigan alumni chapter of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. Melissa's educational research interests include cooperative learning environments, novel assessment methods, and scientific communication. Melissa developed an interest in teaching during her graduate studies at Wayne State University where she received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on tissue engineering and peripheral nerve regeneration. At WSU, she taught BE 1300 (“Materials Science for Engineering Applications”) and BME 1910/20/25 (“Biomedical Engineering Design Laboratory”). Melissa also holds a Bachelor’s in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan and loves being back and teaching at her alma mater!

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