Increasing agency and social impact-driven makerspaces to grow engineering identity and self-efficacy in marginalized students
Synopsis of project aims:
Baseline evaluation of past, informal non-social impact makerspace training, which includes a survey of past participants in an extracurricular maker training program at MIT (Makerlodge) that offers high student agency, but no social impact projects.
A 4-year, longitudinal study of cohorts of undergraduates engaged in informal makerspace learning at MIT and UM, comparing groups that engage in social impact projects and those that do not.
A 4-year, longitudinal study of formal, maker-oriented classes at MIT and UM, comparing cohorts that have social impact in student maker-oriented projects.
