scholarly journals Evaluación de conocimientos previos de estudiantes universitarios sobre electrocinética e implicaciones para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de modelos científicos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Pontes-Pedrajas
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
Formal Instruction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

This work is part of a broader research aimed at improving the quality of physics learning in the training of first-year engineering students. In the first phase of the project, previous knowledge and reasoning models used by students were investigated, when addressing electrokinetics issues and making predictions about the functioning of various electrical circuits.This has been done using an open-ended questionnaire, which students have completed through the Moodle platform, before receiving formal instruction on the subject. The results obtained in this study indicate that students use spontaneous reasoning and express alternative conceptions that show a lack of understanding of the scientific model of electric current.Therefore, in the next phase of the project, it is considered necessary to apply new educational proposals that favor the progression of the mental models of students and help them to overcome the learning difficulties identified in this work.

scholarly journals Inspiration, Strategies and Insight for Learning Programming Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gajendra Sharma ◽  
Toshika Ojha
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
First Year ◽  
C Programming ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Programming Language ◽  
Learning Programming ◽  
Programming Courses

This study explores how the first-year undergraduate students in School of Engineering, Kathmandu University learns their very first programming language i.e. C programming. The students were requested to response to an online questioner, where they were asked about their perception about the programming language they are learning, their motivation on learning that particular language and their strategy on preparing for the subject. Student’s concept on C programming and their approach for preparing for the exam are categorized. Our results show what kind of different strategies they use to learn this particular programming language. Additionally, the insights of this paper point that learning theory of programming and practicing programming goes hand in hand in C programming course and the focus here is on learning difficult topics which involves investigating students perceptions and conceptions of causality in relation to learning difficulties (Berglund et al., 2009). This study is intended to be helpful for future teachers and students in programming courses in Nepal.

STUDENT CONCERNS FOR ENGAGEMENT IN ONLINE ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS DURING COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Memarian ◽  
S. Zuluaga ◽  
M. Stickel
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Student Response ◽  
First Year ◽  
Positive Feeling ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Neutral Tone

This paper shares a summary of the self-reported concerns of 134 first-year engineering students around engagement in online active learning environments during COVID-19. The students had volunteered to participate in remote weekly problem-solving workshops for four weeks that utilized Active Learning techniques. In this paper, we specifically analyze samples from the students who participated in only one workshop and responded to the following question: What concerns do you have that might limit your ability to engage in online active learning environments? Twenty of the participants reported no concerns. The tone of each student's response and personal feelings reported were also analyzed. Then, a thematic analysis of each student response was made, with the transcription and coding agreement being performed by two coders. As expected, most of the students expressed their concerns in a negative or neutral tone, and only a few expressed an affinity for current educational settings. Word mining of feeling terms shows that more students had verbalized being disengaged, followed by distracted and uncomfortable and none communicated a positive feeling. Our thematic analysis showed that learning socially (72/114, or 63%) is the most pressing concern for the students, followed by more personal regulating factors such as attitude and motivation (44%), quality of physical and virtual study environment (40%), as well as the guidance received from the course administrators (24%). Findings suggest the need for developing a global understanding of what active learning in an online environment entails in the context of engineering education, and to develop and adjust tools and practices to help students learn in this new context.

scholarly journals Understanding Barriers to Student Success: What Students Have to Say

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kuley ◽  
Sean Maw ◽  
Terry Fonstad
Keyword(s):  
Student Success ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University

This paper focuses on feedback received from a set of qualitative questions that were administered to undergraduate students in the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, as part of a larger mixed methods study. The larger study aims to identify what characteristics, if any, can predict or are related to student success; The “start-stop-continue” method was utilized to assess student perceptions about  their success in the college as a whole. The students were asked: Are there any specific things that you can think of that act/acted as barriers to your success in engineering (stop)? What could the college do/change to make first year more successful for engineering students (start)? Is there anything in your engineering degree so far that you feel is done well and helps students succeed (continue)? Students identified the quality of instruction early in their program as well as adjustment to college workloads and self-directed learning as the most significant barriers tostudent success.

scholarly journals Correlation between students’ workload and attendance as related towards final grades: A case of study on Statistics for first-year Engineering students.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos De la Calle-Arroyo ◽  
Licesio Rodríguez-Aragón
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
High Ratio ◽  
First Year ◽  
Monitoring Strategy ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Workload ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Final Grades ◽  
The Relationship

In this work, a monitoring experience of student workload and attendance is presented. During four academic years, from 2015 until 2019, first-year students of an Engineering degree have been asked, three times a week, to estimate their autonomous workload devoted to the Statistics subject. The monitoring strategy has been anonymous, open and voluntary and has shown a high ratio of participation: 407 students out of 433. To generate the final dataset this information has been combined with attending records to classroom-based lectures and final grades achieved. Results indicate that declared student’s workload hardly reaches the 90 hours of autonomous work established in the ECTS ratio of our university. Nonparametric comparisons show strong statistical evidences of the relationship between final grades in the subject and declared workload and attendance. We find that attendance is crucial in order to achieve a homogeneous workload along the semester and a success in the subject’s grading.

scholarly journals One-shot or Embedded? Assessing Different Delivery Timing for Information Resources Relevant to Assignments

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Van Epps ◽  
Megan Sapp Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Resource Type ◽  
Research And Design

Objective – This study aims to determine if the timing of library in-class presentations makes a difference in the type and quality of resources students use for each of four assignments in an introductory speech class. This comparison of content delivery timing contrasts a single, 50-minute lecture early in the semester with four approximately 12-minute lectures offered just before each assignment. Methods – First-year engineering students taking Fundamentals of Speech Communication provide the study group. Each speech assignment requires students to turn in an outline and list of references. The list of references for each student was given to the librarians, after the assignments were appropriately anonymized, for analysis of resource type, quality of resource, and completeness of citation. Researchers coded a random sample of bibliographies from the assignments using a framework to identify resource type (book, periodical, Web, facts & figures, unknown) and quality, based on intended audience and purpose (scholarly, entertainment, persuasion/bias), and compared them to each other to determine if a difference is evident. The authors coordinated what material would be presented to the students to minimize variation between the sections. Results – The study found a statistically significant difference between groups of students, demonstrating that the frequent, short library instruction sessions produce an increased use of high-quality content. Similarly, the sections with multiple library interactions show more use of periodicals than websites, while completeness of references is not significantly different across teaching methods. Conclusions – More frequent and timely interaction between students and library instruction increases the quality of sources used and the completeness of the citations written. While researchers found statistically significant differences, the use of a citation coding framework developed for specific engineering research and design tasks means the analysis done in this study is not as accurate as it might be with a framework designed for analyzing the resources required for researching and writing speech assignments.

scholarly journals Online Education and Engineering Students' Perception of Pedagogical Quality, in Learning the Process Control Course with MATLAB

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Omar Chamorro-Atalaya ◽  
Orlando Ortega-Galicio ◽  
Guillermo Morales-Romero ◽  
Adrián Quispe-Andía ◽  
Nicéforo Trinidad-Loli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Process Control ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Pedagogical Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Total Agreement ◽  
Total Compliance

The objective of this article is describe the results obtained from the evaluation of perception in engineering students, regarding pedagogical quality, in the context of online education; during the learning process of the process control course with Matlab. When developing the research, it was determined with respect to the answers capacity factor, that the indicators that present a better perception are "When presenting an observation about the development of the subject, the teacher responds to it appropriately" and "When you have any question or concern, the teacher answers your query quickly”, which have a total agreement of 82.4%. Regarding the Empathy factor, the indicator that presents a better perception is “The time in which the subject is taught is convenient for all students”, which presents a total compliance of 72.7%. Regarding the indicators that show the quality of the pedagogical service in general, it was determined that 75.7% perceive that teachers are always willing to help them and 81.8% perceives that teachers understand the specific academic needs of their students.

scholarly journals Development of spatial thinking in first year students of engineering specialties

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 09014
Author(s):  
Tatyana Belavina
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
First Year ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Graphic Visualization ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Design Result

The article considers issues of development of spatial thinking in students in the process of studying graphic disciplines. The relevance of the study is dictated by the specifics of competencies in the application of the laws of geometric formation of the future builder. The subject of the study is the formation of spatial thinking among engineering students through the study of the course of engineering and computer graphics. The peculiarity of the student's spatial thinking is manifested through the perception of reality, the ability to see the design result, the combination of actions and operations, as well as graphic visualization skills. The obtained results revealed the dependence of the conditions of reproduction of the form by students (reproductive knowledge) on their mastery of theoretical knowledge and acquired skills in performing images.

scholarly journals El libro electrónico en el entorno universitario: Problemática para su adopción / The Electronic Book in the University Environment: Problems for its Adoption

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
José Antonio Domínguez Hernández ◽  
Enrique Ruiz-Velasco Sánchez ◽  
Josefina Bárcenas López ◽  
José Santos Tolosa Sánchez ◽  
Amairani Ixchel Reyes García
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Electronic Format ◽  
Electronic Book ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

ABSTRACTThe integration of electronic books as elements destined to favor the construction of learning in educational processes, supposes a series of previous knowledge concerning the hypertext tendencies of the e-book that the university students should have, given the characteristics of the current society in the that young people make daily use of this type of technology to carry out various tasks. In this tenor, the present work accounts for an investigation carried out with a student population of the Dentist Surgeon Career, whose objective was to identify those elements involved with the adoption of the book in electronic format as a didactic support for the subject Methodology of the Investigation.RESUMENLa integración de libros electrónicos como elementos destinados a favorecer la construcción de aprendizajes en los procesos educativos, supone una serie de conocimientos previos concernientes a las tendencias hipertextuales del e-book que los estudiantes universitarios deberían poseer, dadas las características de la sociedad actual en la que los jóvenes hacen uso cotidiano de ese tipo de tecnología para llevar a cabo diversas tareas. En ese tenor, el presente trabajo da cuenta de una investigación realizada con una población estudiantil de la Carrera de Cirujano Dentista, cuyo objetivo se encaminó a identificar aquellos elementos involucrados con la adopción del libro en formato electrónico como apoyo didáctico para la asignatura Metodología de la Investigación.

scholarly journals The portrait of a competent (ideal) lecturer: students and lecturers’ point of view (based on the material of the language department of a non-linguistic university)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-293
Author(s):  
Tatiana M. Tatarina
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Ideal Teacher ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Work First

The author is interested in studying the portrait of a competent (ideal) teacher. Does the intensification of the pace of education and the growing demands on the quality of education affect the shift of emphasis in the personality of a specialist to greater pragmatism and rigidity? Or is it still, as in the days of Pestalozzi, humanity and morality determine the personality of the teacher? What personality traits of a teacher of Humanities are valuable to students? In this paper the author explores whether the points of view on personal competence of students and teachers coincide. The teacher must have knowledge of the subject, have communication skills, and be a charismatic personality in order to instill students with interest in learning the language, to encourage them to perform a large amount of work. First-year students, when adapting to studying at a university, evaluate university teachers effectiveness in teaching and communicating through the prism of school experience. Students opinions about the objectivity of teachers assessments depend on how interpersonal communication develops in the student-teacher paradigm. The adaptation of students to new forms of training largely depends on whether the teachers personality corresponds to the image of the competent (ideal teacher) that was formed at the previous stage of training (school years).

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION OF INDEPENDENT WORK OF STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Анна Александровна Кулагина
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Independent Work

Рассматривается проблема организации самостоятельной работы студентов 1-го курса как необходимое условие формирования у обучающегося позиции субъекта познания в процессе обучения. Описывается возможность применения технологии развития критического мышления для формирования у студентов 1-го курса навыков качественного выполнения самостоятельной работы. The article discusses the problem of organizing the independent work of 1st year students as a necessary condition for the formation of the student’s position of the subject of knowledge in the learning process. The author describes the possibilities of applying the techniques of critical thinking development technology for the formation of first-year students' skills in the quality of independent work.

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