scholarly journals JITAR Online Modules to Improve Math Preparation of Engineering Students: Preliminary Results

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatice Ozturk ◽  
Dianne Raubenheimer ◽  
Alina Duca ◽  
H. Joel Trussell
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Math Preparation

scholarly journals Design of serious games to assist the reading comprehension of technical texts

2018 ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Avilés-Díaz ◽  
María Susana Avila-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Technical Vocabulary ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
C Compiler ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

Reading comprehension of technical texts is a very important skill that engineering students need to develop. One of the first encounters of engineering students with technical texts in English occurs in programming activities when using a C/C++ compiler, and errors are produced at compilation time. In this work, we present preliminary results of the design of serious games to assist reading comprehension of C compiling errors. We designed and evaluated low fidelity prototypes of games designed so that players can improve their reading comprehension skills at the micro-, and macro-level, i.e. focusing on technical vocabulary, and providing solutions and interpretations to the errors shown in the games. We evaluated the games to learn about their acceptability and whether the students would play them again.

scholarly journals Mineração de Dados Educacionais Visando a Identificação da Evasão no Ensino Superior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Carminati ◽  
Roberto Augusto ◽  
Norberto Dallabrida ◽  
Raimundo Teive
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Private University ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Mean

This paper tackles the problem of dropout of undergraduate studentsin a private university, by using Educational Data Mining(EDM) techniques. The EDM is an emerging area, concerned withdeveloping methods for exploring the increasingly large-scale datathat come from educational settings and using those methods tobetter understand students and the settings which they learn in. Inthis work, EDM is used to identify profiles of students who withdrawfrom their engineering courses. The considered dataset iscomposed of 53 attributes, involving financial and academic aspectsof 2,925 engineering students. Preliminary results have identifiedsome attributes that are related to the dropout in engineering courses,such as: the semester of the year (students are more prone todropout in the first half of the year), attendance, grades (in thiscase median is more important than the mean value) and numberof credits in the previous semester, and the current semester thestudent is enrolled (students bellow the 5th semester have a highertendency to dropout).

scholarly journals Preliminary Results of a Study Assessing Engineering Students' Formation of Identity as Rhetorician

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Rolfes ◽  
Corey Owen ◽  
Julie Hunchak
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The World ◽  
Cluster Criticism ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
Terministic Screens

The difficulty of teaching communicationskills to engineering students in a way that facilitates thetransfer of knowledge to workplace situations is widelyacknowledged. At the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Saskatchewan we have tried to address thisdifficulty by developing a programme that attempts to addthe identity of effective communicator to the students’identity as engineer. The purpose of this study is to beginto assess whether students are forming this identity. UsingBurke’s concept of terministic screens and the analyticaltools of cluster criticism, we analyze the transcripts ofinterviews of students returning from internshipexperiences to assess whether students’ language choicesreflect a rhetorical orientation to the world and thus thedevelopment of an identity of rhetorician

scholarly journals Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET): Clues on how to interpret written feedback

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Schiltz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Written Feedback ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Student Evaluation Of Teaching ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Written Comments ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching

In this paper we present the preliminary results of a study covering 217 written comments submitted in the formal university SET questionnaire of two undergraduate physics lectures for engineering students. Concerning the SET-metrics, one of the lectures was rated as critical, while the other lecture had good results. The analysis is based on the praise and criticism framework elaborated by Hyland/Hyland (2001) for written feedback. Our findings, which also relate written feedback to quantitative variables and contrast the results between critical and good evaluations, provide a deeper insight for both, teachers and educational developers, on how to interpret written comments in a quality management process.

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