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Assessment of hands-on activities to enhance students’ learning in the first year engineering skills course

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by A Patil, Llewellyn MannLlewellyn Mann, Robin HowardRobin Howard, Fae MartinFae Martin
The 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

286

End Page

292

Number of Pages

7

Start Date

2009-01-01

ISBN-10

1876346590

Location

Adelaide, S.A.

Publisher

School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide

Place 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

Name of Conference

Australasian Association for Engineering Education. Conference.