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In this study we analyzed the curricula of 65 university students to investigate the impact of activities progression on student performances. Clustering curricula based on activity order and type we discovered a significant incidence on performance, validating the predictive power of curricula. Nevertheless, we discovered that the characterization of clusters is mainly due to non mandatory activities,...
The identification of academic attributes that allow improving student achievement is of fundamental importance in the teaching learning process. In the current study we present a methodology to recognize the attributes of educational success based Pareto distribution and data mining algorithms that authorize the identification of which attributes most important to child's educational performance...
This paper presents a literature review on the use of a large array of data about students and courses that was collected by institutions and learning analytics to improve students success and retention. Academic analytics is getting notable attention, because it assists educational institutions in improving student achievement and success, increasing student retention, and reduce the load of liability...
For engineering students, functioning in a ??smaller, flatter world?? means gaining an education that extends them into global experiences. These experiences are personally developing by fostering development of 1) better self-understanding, 2) improved communication skills, 3) improved adaptability, 4) stronger self-reliability and 5) stronger capacity for working effectively with others from different...
Written examination is a conventional yet universal tool to evaluate the student's performance in a subject area, where the required cognitive ability is defined through items such as learning outcomes. Whether or not the written examination is able to assess the student's ability very much depends on the questions presented in the examination paper. A good and reasonable examination paper must consist...
The Engineering Leadership Program is entering its fourth year as a co-curricular program at Iowa State University. It is a values-based learning community for engineering students passionate about contributing to their communities, locally or globally. As the program has grown from 15 to over 80 scholars, it has experienced creative challenges such as retaining a sense of community, succession planning,...
The successful use of active learning practices in a medium-to-large sized (25 - 50 students) graduate engineering statistics course has its challenges as well as opportunities. Students expect that lecture would be the dominant pedagogy, so introducing team-based activities violates their assumptions about the structure of the course. Experience in teaching graduate-level courses in statistics, validated...
The Texas Tech University (Texas-Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) T-STEM Center develops and offers professional development workshops for K-12 teachers in the engineering design process. Although, for many years we have offered workshops in varied areas such as LEGO Robotics, rocketry, GLOBE, FOSS and PASCO, our aim is to provide teachers exciting and innovative ways to teach science, math...
Having a single numerical value to represent a student's overall level of achievement is useful. At Curtin University of Technology, it is the course weighted average (CWA) - an average of percentage grades received for each course. At Virginia Tech, it is the grade point average (gpa) - an average of values based upon letter grades for courses (letters initially based upon percentage grades). To...
A double-blind peer review process is embedded in the implementation of model-eliciting activities - a type of open-ended problem used in a large first-year engineering course. Students conduct the peer review along three dimensions: mathematical model, re-usability & modifiability, and audience (share-ability). Classmates bring to bear both their own solution development experience as well as...
Engineers must not only have design and technical skills, they must also possess the ability to work in and lead teams, adopt and adapt to change, and act as leaders who can think in terms of the bigger picture. To develop these skills, engineering students must be actively involved in their education and trained to continually learn. Many engineering students have become accustomed to traditional...
Freshmen engineering retention rates are low in universities across the country even though recruiting efforts target the highest quality high school students. This study addresses the effect helping students cope with academic failure and if this can be used to increase student retention. This paper discusses an approach by the University of Pittsburgh's Freshman Engineering Program in order to address...
Data from the Academic Pathways Study, a component of the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, were used to investigate engineering student involvement in extracurricular activities. The study design used a variety of methods: the results presented here are from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys of engineering students as well as interviews with graduating seniors...
There is agreement on the need for change in engineering education, but lacking are the motivation, knowledge, or skills to effect change. With that in mind, we held a workshop in June 2009 that sought to engage faculty members who are change leaders. Over the two-day workshop, we solicited their views on departmental and institutional challenges, the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) necessary...
The overall teaching strategy in our basic materials engineering course has been transformed from deductive practice to an inductive teaching and learning system where most of the elements of a student-centered approach are present: cooperative learning, case-based teaching, active/inquiry learning, concept learning, problem-based learning, and constructive alignment. All these principles are supported...
The Purdue School of Materials Engineering's successful ABET assessment in 2007 relied in part on an innovative approach to setting course objectives set at levels based on the performance expected for all students, most students and some students. By not relying merely on averages and variability or some scaling based on percentiles, faculty may match exam questions and written laboratory report...
It is often a daunting task for engineering students to learn programming. Learning by playing has proven to be an effective way to engage students at nearly all levels of the curriculum. In this work, we will describe how we developed modules for teaching MATLAB to freshmen engineers through the use of the Nintendo Wiimote and motion capture. Through the work of a summer REU project, we developed...
Teaching Assistants (TAs) can play a major part in project education, being an extra pair of eyes and hands for the lecturer. TAs are usually senior students and by becoming a TA these students stop being part of the group of students. They become part of the staff and take on part of the responsibility for the learning and grading of fellow students. To make sure the TAs are prepared for these tasks,...
Quality assurance of higher education is based on a combination of collegial and student evaluation in many universities. Conceptions of what teaching at university level involves can be expected to play an important role in defining what we mean by high quality instruction. This paper presents a case study, based on official quality assurance data and student reflection, which illustrates the external...
The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, College of Education, UTeach Natural Sciences program and the Austin Independent School District are collaborating to develop and deliver UTeachEngineering, an innovative, design-based curriculum for preparing secondary teachers to meet the growing need for engineering teachers in Texas.
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