Assessing the effectiveness of Constructivism and Transformational Leadership on STEM/TEKS through a Construction Summer Experience

9 pages•Published: May 15, 2022

Abstract

Construction summer experiences in the form of summer camps targeting high school students are becoming more common. These construction summer experiences are critical as they provide high school students the opportunity to learn about construction, career pathways in construction and perhaps motivate them to enroll in one of the nation’s university construction programs. Unfortunately, a theoretical framework to develop and implement construction summer experiences did not exist until recently. This study presents the research results of a pilot implementation of a Summer Experience based on Transformational Leadership and Constructivism theories (SumEx- TLC). More specifically, this paper provides the results in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) of a construction transportation infrastructure via summer experience. This one-week hands-on summer experience engaged a small group of minority and economically disadvantaged high school students. During the pilot implementation, data was collected following an exploratory case study with a quasi-experimental design methodology. The pilot study results are encouraging and support the notion of continuing research using similar frameworks with a large-scale implementation.

Keyphrases: construction, constructivism, summer experience, transformational leadership, transportation infrastructure

In: Tom Leathem, Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud (editors). ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 3, pages 308-316.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/92lD
	https://doi.org/10.29007/lv4r

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2022:Assessing_effectiveness_Constructivism_Transformational,
  author    = {Tulio Sulbaran and Sandeep Langar},
  title     = {Assessing the effectiveness of Constructivism and Transformational Leadership on STEM/TEKS through a Construction Summer Experience},
  booktitle = {ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/92lD},
  doi       = {10.29007/lv4r},
  pages     = {308-316},
  year      = {2022}}

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