TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the Demand of Problems in an Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Course
AU - Rivera-Reyes, Presentacion
AU - Perez, Lance C.
AU - Delahunty, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - This paper describes a study to assess the demand of problems posed in undergraduate electrical engineering courses. This is part of a larger study to examine the gap between the demand of problems and the types of reasoning students use when attempting to solve them. The analysis uses a two-dimensional taxonomy table consisting of rows and columns that define cognitive processes and categories of knowledge, respectively. The cognitive process dimension (i.e., the rows of the table) contains six categories: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The knowledge dimension (i.e., the columns of the table) contains four categories: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. Preliminary results suggest that the proposed two-dimension analysis can be successfully used to characterize the demand of electrical engineering problems.
AB - This paper describes a study to assess the demand of problems posed in undergraduate electrical engineering courses. This is part of a larger study to examine the gap between the demand of problems and the types of reasoning students use when attempting to solve them. The analysis uses a two-dimensional taxonomy table consisting of rows and columns that define cognitive processes and categories of knowledge, respectively. The cognitive process dimension (i.e., the rows of the table) contains six categories: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The knowledge dimension (i.e., the columns of the table) contains four categories: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. Preliminary results suggest that the proposed two-dimension analysis can be successfully used to characterize the demand of electrical engineering problems.
KW - Abstraction
KW - Demand of problems
KW - Electrical engineering
KW - Problem solving
KW - Undergraduate research
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2018.8659058
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2018.8659058
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85063541335
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - Frontiers in Education
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 48th Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2018
Y2 - 3 October 2018 through 6 October 2018
ER -