Research Interests: Cognitive and affective engagement, Quantitative and meta-analysis research design, Educational instrument development
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Nathaniel Hunsu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Dr. Hunsu is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI). His research interests stand at the nexus of learning and motivation theories in education, and focuses on how to apply educational theories to facilitate meaningful learning engagement, and enrich student experience in the engineering classroom. His current work focuses on promoting and assessing cognitive and affective engagement to enrich engineering student experience.
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Hunsu, N. J., Kehinde, O. J., Oje, A. V., & Yli-Piipari, S. (2022). Single Versus Multiple Resilience Factors: An Investigation of the Dimensionality of the Academic Resilience Scale. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829211056391
Olaogun, O. P., Oje, A. V., Hunsu, N. J. & Carnell, P. H. (2021). The Effect of Goal Orientations and Belief Motivation on Undergraduate Engineering Students' Achievenaent, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637423.
Hunsu, N., Oje, A. V., Jackson, A., & Olaogun, O. P. (2021). Examining Approach and Avoidance Valences of the 3 X 2 Achievement Goal Types on an Engineering Student Sample: A Validity Approach. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 628004. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628004
Hunsu, N. J., Carnell, P. H., & Sochacka, N. W. (2021). Resilience theory and research in engineering education: what good can it do?. European Journal of Engineering Education, 46(6), 1026-1042.
Sochacka, N. W., Walther, J., Morelock, J. R., Hunsu, N. J., & Carnell, P. H. (2020). Cultivating a culture of scholarly teaching and learning in a college of engineering: An ecological design approach. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 25(2), 165-176.
Simmons, D. R., Hunsu, N. J., & Adesope, O. O. (2019). Enabling multi-dimensional measurement of student engagement in engineering learning environments. International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(6), 1827-1838.
Odhong, C., Wilkes, A., van Dijk, S., Vorlaufer, M., Ndonga, S., Sing'ora, B., & Kenyanito, L. (2019). Financing large-scale mitigation by smallholder farmers: what roles for public climate finance?. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 3, 3.
Simmons, D. R., Ye, Y., Hunsu, N. J., & Adesope, O. O. (2017). Development of a Survey to Explore Out-of-Class Engagement of Engineering Students. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION, 33(4), 1213-1221.
Adesope, O. O., Cavagnetto, A., Hunsu, N. J., Anguiano, C., & Lloyd, J. (2017). Comparative Effects of Computer-Based Concept Maps, Refutational Texts, and Expository Texts on Science Learning. Journal on Educational Computing Research, 55(1), 46-69. doi:10.1177/0735633116654163
Hunsu, N. J., Adesope, O., & Van Wie, B. J. (2017). Engendering situational interest through innovative instruction in an engineering classroom: what really mattered? Instructional Science, 45(6), 789-804.
Hunsu, N. J., Adesope, O., & Bayly, D. J. (2016). A meta-analysis of the effects of audience response systems (clicker-based technologies) on cognition and affect. Computers and Education, 94, 102-119. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2015.11.013
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Selected Courses
ENGR 2170: Electric Circuit
ENGR 2090: Probability and Statistics
ENGR 8050: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
