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Download fileAssessment of hands-on activities to enhance students’ learning in the first year engineering skills course
conference contribution
posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by A Patil, Llewellyn MannLlewellyn Mann, Robin HowardRobin Howard, Fae MartinFae MartinThe engineering skills course at the CQUniversity has very comprehensivecurriculum for the first year undergraduate engineering program to meet the pedagogicalneeds in accordance with both university’s and Engineers Australia’s objectives. Theproblem-based educational approach taken has recently incorporated a set of hands-onlearning activities to help achieve students’ learning goals. An anonymous survey wasconducted after the first term in order to evaluate the effectiveness of these hands-onactivities and to obtain students’ feedback. This paper presents the findings and bothquantitative as well as qualitative analysis of these results. The findings of the survey arevery encouraging, and provide evidence of effectiveness of these hands-on activities onstudents’ learning. Furthermore, the suggestions received through quantitative andqualitative feedback of this survey will be used for the course improvement in the future.
History
Start Page
286End Page
292Number of Pages
7Start Date
2009-01-01ISBN-10
1876346590Location
Adelaide, S.A.Publisher
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of AdelaidePlace of Publication
Adelaide, S.A.Peer Reviewed
- Yes
Open Access
- No
External Author Affiliations
Conference; Learning and Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC);Era Eligible
- Yes