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- Adams, Robin, et al.
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What is the word for 'Engineering' in Swedish : Swedish students conceptions of their discipline
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Engineering education in Sweden – as in the rest of the world – is experiencing a decline in student interest. There are concerns about the ways in which students think about engineering education, why they join an academic programme in engineering, and why they persist in their studies. In this context the aims of the Nationellt ämnesdidaktiskt Centrum för Teknikutbildning i Studenternas Sammanhang project (CeTUSS) is to investigate the student experience and to identify and support a continuing network of interested researchers, as well as in building capacity for disciplinary pedagogic investigation. The Stepping Stones project brings together these interests in a multi-researcher, multi-institutional study that investigates how tudents and academic staff perceive engineering in Sweden and in Swedish education. The first results of that project are reported here. As this study is situated uniquely in Swedish education, it allows for exploration of “a Swedish perspective” on conceptions of engineering. The Stepping Stones project was based on a model of research capacity-building previously instantiated in the USA and Australia (Fincher & Tenenberg, 2006).
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- Daniels, Mats, et al.
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Evaluating a joint international project in disjunct courses
- 1999
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Ingår i: SEFI Workshop, delft, Holland.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports on a study of the Runestone project. Runestone is a group project produced by trans-national teams comprising final year students at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, USA and third year students on the Information Technology Engineering education program at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Each team works on the same project under the same conditions - half of each team comes from each country, and supervision is mostly virtual. The focus of this paper will be on the supervision and assessment of the group projects. As well as the "normal" problems of assessment, for example the difficulties inherent in assessing individuals within a group and the problems of nationally and culturally heterogeneous groups, Runestone displays other unique problems
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- Daniels, Mats, et al.
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Five myths of assessment
- 2004
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Ingår i: Australian Computer Science Communication. ; 26:5, s. 57-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes some issues concerning assessment and the corresponding motivation for students to work in a desired manner. The issues came from studying assessment in the Runestone project, but are, as we see them, of general interest. Our findings illustrate the need to not take the effects of assessment, nor what it measures, for granted. It is our intention to promote Computer Science Education research as an essential area for improving our education, in this case by exposing myths about assessment as myths.
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