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- Kinnunen, Päivi, et al.
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Understanding initial undergraduate expectations and identity in computing studies
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Journal of Engineering Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0304-3797 .- 1469-5898. ; 43:2, s. 201-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is growing appreciation of the importance of understanding thestudent perspective in Higher Education (HE) at both institutional andinternational levels. This is particularly important in Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics subjects such as Computer Science (CS)and Engineering in which industry needs are high but so are studentdropout rates. An important factor to consider is the management ofstudents’initial expectations of university study and career. This paperreports on a study of CSfirst-year students’expectations across threeEuropean countries using qualitative data from student surveys andessays. Expectation is examined from both short-term (topics to bestudied) and long-term (career goals) perspectives. Tackling these issueswill help paint a picture of computing education through students’eyesand explore their vision of its and their role in society. It will also helpeducators prepare students more effectively for university study and toimprove the student experience.
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- Malmi, Lauri, et al.
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How authors did it – a methodological analysis of recent engineering education research papers in the European Journal of Engineering Education
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Journal of Engineering Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0304-3797 .- 1469-5898. ; 43:2, s. 171-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigated research processes applied in recent publications in the European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE), exploring how papers link to theoretical work and how research processes have been designed and reported. We analysed all 155 papers published in EJEE in 2009, 2010 and 2013, classifying the papers using a taxonomy of research processes in engineering education research (EER) (Malmi et al. 2012). The majority of the papers presented either empirical work (59%) or were case reports (27%). Our main findings are as follows: (1) EJEE papers build moderately on a wide selection of theoretical work; (2) a great majority of papers have a clear research strategy, but data analysis methods are mostly simple descriptive statistics or simple/undocumented qualitative research methods; and (3) there are significant shortcomings in reporting research questions, methodology and limitations of studies. Our findings are consistent with and extend analyses of EER papers in other publishing venues; they help to build a clearer picture of the research currently published in EJEE and allow us to make recommendations for consideration by the editorial team of the journal. Our employed procedure also provides a framework that can be applied to monitor future global evolution of this and other EER journals.
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