Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2023

Publication Title

The 40th International Pupils' Attitudes Toward Technology Conference Proceedings 2023

Pages

1-13

Conference Name

PATT40: The 40th International Pupil's Attitudes Towards Technology Research Conference, 31 October to 3 November, 2023, Liverpool, U.K.

Abstract

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a key construct for engagement in technology education learning at the undergraduate level. The sample population for this applied research study is two higher education institutions, one located in the Mississippi Delta with a predominately homogenous population of rural, African American students and the other in West Virginia, with a predominant population of rural Caucasian students. The students were enrolled in technology education-based courses and participated in the research study survey to assess their social emotional learning and their overall college success and engagement. The findings of this very limited sample size showed that undergraduate students failed to connect the importance of social emotional skills especially empathy and social awareness, with academic success. Students tended to rank themselves highly in academic based categories even when their academic GPA did not reflect that rigor. All students ranked themselves low in awareness of others’ emotions and especially awareness of their faculty’s perspectives.

Rights

© 2023 Virginia Jones and Daniel Trent.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

Jones, V., & Trent, D. (2023). Social emotional learning and its framework for technology education. The 40th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference Proceedings 2023, 1(October). Retrieved from https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/PATT40/article/view/1251

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