The Virtual Centre for Enterprise (VCE) is a virtual education centre for the development of entrepreneurial skills and competencies. The centre provides intensive vocational courses (e-learning modules), for (primari...
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Research indicates significant cheating at institutions of higher learning;however, evidence indicates that a well-designed and clearly-communicated campus honor code might have a mitigating effect. This is the impetu...
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Authentic achievement requires learners to "engage in disciplined inquiry to produce knowledge that has value in their lives beyond simply proving their competence." (Newmann, 1991) While college teaching co...
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The University of Cincinnati has a campus in the US and an international campus in China. Students in both campus take the same courses given by the same team of instructors. The purpose of this study is to evaluate t...
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Educating effective engineering designers is an important goal. Exploring the extent to which this goal is being met hinges on our ability to characterise what contributes to effectiveness and to map students’ perfor...
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Educating effective engineering designers is an important goal. Exploring the extent to which this goal is being met hinges on our ability to characterise what contributes to effectiveness and to map students’ performance against such standards. In previous work, we used verbal protocol analysis to analyse differences in the design processes of freshmen and seniors, the effects of interventions on student design processes, and process factors that contribute to product quality. In this paper, we utilise Schön’s reflective practitioner theory to discuss our empirical results in the context of educating reflective practitioners. Such an approach may provide implications for enhancing engineering education.
ENGR 100 is a hands-on, team-based freshmen design course in which students engage in design activities, learn about the field of engineering, and develop an understanding of what kinds of skills and knowledge are nec...
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ENGR 100 is a hands-on, team-based freshmen design course in which students engage in design activities, learn about the field of engineering, and develop an understanding of what kinds of skills and knowledge are necessary to pursue a career in engineering. The learning that results from these kinds of authentic tasks is not easy to assess with traditional tests or a single assessment method. To evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching methods and course content, we created an evaluation plan that utilized triangulation of data through multiple methods. Triangulation is not just a tactic to establish validity and credibility of findings, it is a robust mode of inquiry that provides opportunities to view complementary and contrasting data. The authors present an in-depth description of our evaluation plan. This includes a description of the planning and administration of the assessment tasks, the selection of assessment methods and development of instruments, and how the plan triangulated data across assessment methodologies.
This paper describes how four playground experts and five engineering experts completed a task of designing a playground. The findings, derived from a qualitative coding analysis, showcase the playground experts in th...
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This paper describes how four playground experts and five engineering experts completed a task of designing a playground. The findings, derived from a qualitative coding analysis, showcase the playground experts in this sample considering social contextual factors, paying attention to human actors' playground use, and relying mainly on professional knowledge. The engineering experts in this sample also paid attention to use of the playground by people and used a combination of professional and personal knowledge as they completed a playground design task. In support of ABET's goals for the engineering discipline, the research highlights how expertise in a particular domain may be helpful for one's capacity to also focus on social and human-related elements through the design process. These outcomes aim to support the educational discussion on how to enable engineering students to develop expertise that involves broader design considerations.
This chapter proposes the need to define the qualities of effective teaching in higher education and introduces a framework to assess teaching effectiveness (FATE) that can be adapted by other institutions for evaluat...
This paper presents a study that focuses on how 16 colleges and universities across the United States have incorporated teaching portfolios into their institutions. The two most common types of teaching portfolios are...
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This current paper uses a qualitative analysis approach to explore the conceptions of diversity as expressed by future engineering educators. engineering graduate students and post-docs (future engineering educators) ...
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