2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Work In Progress: Implementing the “Good Old-Fashioned Student” Teaching Model in the Two-Year College Classroom

Presented at Two-Year College Division (TYCD) Technical Session 4: Curriculum and Assessment

According to data compiled by ASEE from the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, in 2019, nearly half of those in the engineering and science workforce spent some portion of their education at a two-year college. Most of those students did not complete an associate’s degree, and thus, likely transferred credits into a four-year college. Under this assumption, it is important to expose students in the two-year college environment to the learning practices of an independent learner which will enable their success in the four-year college environment. These skills- reading textbooks, notetaking, and reflection on homework- are often explicitly taught in the freshmen classroom for four-year students, so transfer students miss this exposure. Here we present findings from the first year of use of the “Good Old-Fashioned Student” framework, originally implemented at four-year College X, in the “Introduction to Engineering” course at two-year College Y. Assignment instructions, instructor grading duration, student submission rates, and student feedback are included to inform others who wish to implement this model.

Authors

Dr. Stephanie Laughton http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9443-2629 The Citadel [biography]

Stephanie Laughton is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel, The Military
College of South Carolina. She acquired a Bachelor's in Civil & Environmental Engineering with Honors from Duke
University followed by Master's and Doctoral degrees in the same field from Carnegie Mellon University.
Laughton’s research interests include engineering education and pedagogy, sustainability education, and
environmental nanotechnology.
Dr. Timothy Aaron Wood P.E. http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-3926-7314 The Citadel [biography]

Timothy A Wood is an Associate Professor and Construction Engineering Program Director in the Dr. Emmett I. Davis, Jr. ’50, Department of
Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at The Citadel. He acquired a Bachelor's in Engineering Physics Summa Cum Laude with Honors followed by Civil Engineering Master's and Doctoral degrees from Texas Tech University. His technical research focuses on structural evaluation of buried bridges and culverts. He encourages students through an infectious enthusiasm for engineering mechanics and self-directed, lifelong learning. He aims to recover the benefits of the classical model for civil engineering education through an emphasis on reading and other autodidactic practices.

Note

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