IMPRESS (Integrating Metacognitive Practice to Ensure Student Success) incorporates metacognition into the study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) studies. IMPRESS reaches students through three programs: a summer experience for 20 incoming 1st-year students each year, engaging them in authentic scientific practice and reflections about learning, knowledge, self-assessment and identity, a 1st-year course “Metacognition in Science” in which 48 students apply metacognitive ideas and strategies to their concurrent STEM classwork, and a Learning Assistant program that positions students as classroom leaders helping other students master content. IMPRESS is designed to increase retention and performance, with deaf/hard-of-hearing and first-generation students a model for applications to the more general RIT population.
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Assembly Fellow (2021): Mikayla Bulson (she/her/hers), mrb1048@rit.edu
Mikayla Bulson is a third-year undergraduate in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Rochester Institute of Technology. On-campus, she is involved with the Society of Women Engineers and No Voice Zone where she picked up some sign language. In her free time, she loves to play Animal Crossing, build things, and do paint by numbers. This past year, she worked with fellow classmates to create a metacognition club at our site called “Get Meta!”. She is currently working on a new club called Get Meta!, which has been founded by students of the IMPRESS program to increase awareness of metacognition and further our knowledge of metacognitive practices in practical and fun ways, as well as to give opportunities to build leadership skills and connections within the deaf/hard-of-hearing, first-generation student and STEM communities. This is her second year working with Access and I’m so excited to be representing RIT and get more involved in the programs! She is open to email, so feel free to reach out to her about anything!
Network Fellow (2021): Merone Delnesa, mtd6620@g.rit.edu
Past Fellows:
Kylie Johnson, Network Fellow (2020)
Lacey Dallum, Assembly Fellow 2019, Network Fellow 2019
Michaela Dinman, Network Fellow 2018
Sam Cammarata, Assembly Fellow 2017
Michaela Dinman, Assembly Fellow 2017
Debbie Kamau, Network Fellow 2016, 2017
Ashley Adair, Network Fellow 2016