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- Bernhard, Jonte, 1953-, et al.
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Analysing and modelling engineering students’ learning in the laboratory : A comparison of two methodologies
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of 6th Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES 2015). - : Curran Associates, Inc.. - 9781510815575 ; , s. 620-628
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Producing structured, meaningful and useful descriptions (representations) of students’ learning in labs is not straightforward. Two possible approaches are compared here. Students’ courses of action in labs of an electric circuit course were video-recorded, then the activities during the labs were described and analysed using “the learning of a complex concept” (LCC) methodology. Conversations during the full lengths of the same labs were also transcribed verbatim. Subsequent analysis indicates that transcription offers a more detailed representation of the learning and interaction that occurred. However, it is considerably slower than LCC methodology, which can also represent learning in the full length of a lab in some detail. Furthermore, the latter gave a better overview of the analysed labs than transcription and more readily facilitated representation of both learning complexities and linking theory to practice. In conclusion, both methods can play valuable roles in engineering education research, depending on the questions addressed.
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- Carstensen, Anna-Karin, et al.
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Design Science Research – an engineering research approach to improve methods for engineering education research
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings: 6th Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES 2015), Translating Research into Practice, Dublin, Ireland, 13-15 July 2015. - : Curran Associates, Inc.. - 9781510815575
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Modelling is an engineering activity commonly used by engineers, and can be used also in engineering education research (EER). The use of qualitative research methods have in EER not always been widely accepted but have recently gained more attention (Case & Light, 2011). There are, however, also qualitative research methods in engineering research that may be used in EER (Bernhard, in press). One such approach is design science research, where the object of research is the design process, i.e. the knowledge retrieved is not always knowledge about the phenomenon, the artefact, the design, but rather knowledge about the method used. This paper aims at researching the method used when deriving the model “the learning of a complex concept”, the LCC-model, which we developed while designing teaching sequences in a course in electrical engineering.
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