3 articles in this issue
Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Gene Y. Liao, Shlomo Sawilowsky
There is a major trend in engineering education to provide students with realistic hands-on learning experiences. This paper reports on the results of work done to develop standardized test instruments to use for student learning outcomes assessment in an... see more
Timothy L. Foutz
Educators have used argumentation to help students understand mathematical ideas which often appear abstract to the novice learner. A preliminary investigation was conducted to determine if collaborative argumentation is a strategy that can improve ... see more
Wenshu Li, Richard M. Bennett, Taimi Olsen, Rachel McCord
Homework is an important out-of-class activity, crucial to student success in engineering courses. However, in a first-semester freshman engineering course, approximately one-fourth of students were completing less than 80% of the homework. The purp... see more