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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"First Year Engineering Students"”.
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First year engineering students’ perceptions of engineering
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has steadily drawn increasingly larger incoming classes of students. With a significant population and a diverse number of programs, these freshmen will be entering a unique engineering culture. This study sought to understand the …
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Assessment of First-Year Engineering Students' Spatial Visualization Skills
… of the spatial visualization skills of first-year engineering students. This research was conducted through three approaches: (1) a review of cogent research framed by a spatial visualization matrix, (2) the development and validation of an Engineering Graphics Concept Inventory, and (3) …
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Learning Analytics: Understanding First-Year Engineering Students through Connected Student-Centered Data
… of large amounts of disconnected student data on first-year engineering (FYE) students and to understand how FYE instructors use data to inform their teaching practices. Grounded by the Academic Plan Model, which highlights student characteristics as an important consideration in curriculum …
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Teamwork Exercises and Technological Problem Solving with First-Year Engineering Students: An Experimental Study
… information processing, and problem formulation. First-year college engineering students (N = 294) were randomly assigned to three levels of team size (2, 3, or 4 members) and two treatment conditions: teamwork exercises and problem structure (N = 99 teams). In addition, the study included three …
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A PHENOMENOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES WITH PROBLEMS INVOLVING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
… evaluation. In order to allow maximum time for students to develop skills for solving such problems, undergraduate engineering programs can introduce such problems during the first year of students’ education, in the form of cornerstone design tasks. This provides students with more …
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Achieving What Gets Measured: Responsive and Reflective Learning Approaches and Strategies of First-Year Engineering Students
Background: Engineering students who achieve academic success during their first year may later disengage from challenging course material in their upper-level courses, due to perceived differences between their expectations and values and those of their degree programs. In the extreme, academic …
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Development of a Scalable Self-Regulation Intervention in Support of Lifelong Learning for First-year Engineering Students
Lifelong learning is a Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduate attribute and thus a fundamental component of engineering education, and yet, unlike many core engineering concepts such as thermodynamics or heat transfer, there is no agreed upon approach to teach it to students. This …
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A Quantitative Analysis of First Year Engineering Students' Courses Perceptions and Motivational Beliefs in Two Introductory Engineering Courses
As a national initiative to support retention of engineering students, engineering programs have undergone a surge of revisions to their coursework in recent years, most notably in relation to first-year programs. These program modifications are generally intended to enhance student success in …
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An investigation into the performance and problems of first-year engineering students at the University of Cape Town
The first- and second-year results of the 1989 engineering student intake were analysed and revealed that matriculants from Black Education Departments performed significantly worse in the first year than those from White Education Departments. Matric point scores were found to be good predictors …
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A Mixed Method Approach for Assessing the Adjustment of Incoming First-Year Engineering Students in a Summer Bridge Program
… the retention and graduation rates of at-risk students (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). In fact, summer bridge programs (SBPs), which typically occur prior to a student's freshman fall term, are among the oldest strategies used to improve college retention rates (Garcia, 1991). Surprisingly, …
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An investigation of what knowledge in valued and how it is communicated in a mathematics support course for first-year engineering students
There is longstanding and widespread concern that students find the transition from school to university mathematics difficult. There have been various practical responses to supporting students in this transition. Research conducted on these responses tends to focus on student perceptions and the …
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The impact of co-operative learning on the academic success of educationally disadvantaged first year engineering students at the University of Cape Town
… workshops on the academic achievement of 1st year Physics 110w [ASPECT] students from the ex- Department of Education and Training [DET] and Transkei [TK] schools in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cape Town in 1995. At the time of doing the research for the investigation there …
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Student experiences of problem-based learning in engineering: learning cultures of PBL teams
This study investigates the experiences of first year engineering students to a newly implemented engineering problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum at Victoria University; its effects on their approaches to learning and their learning outcomes. This qualitative study, which uses ethnographic …
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Exploring the role of Web 2.0 applications in the acquisition of digital literacy by first-year students at a South African University of Technology
… of technology (UoT) under investigation, many first-year students find it challenging to actively engage with online learning because of a lack of competence in digital literacy. This suggests that developing digital literacy is becoming more important for higher education students' success. …
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A Comparative Study of the Cognitive Integration of Disciplinary and Societal Knowledge Between First-year and Senior Engineering Students Through Mathematical Modeling: An Epistemic Network Analysis
… it is essential to expand knowledge in engineering education research regarding learning experiences that foster engineering students’ integration between disciplinary and social knowledge. This dissertation aimed to compare the cognitive integration processes of disciplinary …
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A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing
… Errors were investigated and identified based on students’ 36 progress and final reports which were assembled from first year engineering students; named as the Learner Corpus Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia(LCUTHM). The LCUTHM was analyzed by means of linguistics Natural Language Processing …
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Students' engagement with technology-enhanced resources in first year non-specialist undergraduate mathematics modules
While students undertaking first-year undergraduate mathematics modules report using technology-enhanced resources (YouTube, Khan Academy, Wolfram Alpha) for their studies, and lecturers invest time and effort into developing such resources using tools such as GeoGebra and Matlab, there has been …
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Predicting the Academic Success of Female Engineering Students During the First Year of College Using the SAT and Non-Cognitive Variables
… (SAT) in predicting the academic achievement of first year female engineering students. Ancis and Sedlacek (1997) studied non-cognitive variables with a general population of undergraduate women. Their study validated the NCQ as a predictor of academic success for women students. The present …
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Effects of Motivational Beliefs and Instructional Practice on Students' Intention to Pursue Majors and Careers in Engineering
… scores of traditional and pilot groups on the students' motivational beliefs and their intention to pursue majors and careers in engineering. The difference between the two groups was in terms of instruction techniques used. The instructional techniques used for the traditional group was that …
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Challenges of a new academic discourse: an investigation into the reading and writing practices of first-year chemical engineering students at a South African University
The challenges for a diverse intake of first-year engineering students, when acquiring a new academic discourse during the transition to university, has triggered this study of literacy practices in the first project task in a core first-year chemical engineering course, in a four-year …