Deconstructing Engineering Education Programmes: The DEEP Project to reform the mechanical engineering curriculum     

Ilene Busch-Vishniac  Tom Kibler  Patricia B. Campbell  Eann Patterson  Darrell Guillaume  Jeffrey Jarosz 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2011,36(3):269-283

The goal of the Deconstructing Engineering Education Programmes project is to revise the mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum to make the discipline more able to attract and retain a diverse community of students. The project seeks to reduce and reorder the prerequisite structure linking courses to offer greater flexibility for students. This paper describes the methods used to study the prerequisites and the resulting proposed curriculum revision. The process involved dissecting each course into topics at roughly the level of a line in a syllabus, editing the list of topics, associating prerequisites and successors to each topic and then using a genetic algorithm to produce clusters of topics. The new curriculum, which consists of 12 clusters, each of which could be a full year course, is quite different from the traditional curriculum.  相似文献   

Solving graphics tasks: Gender differences in middle-school students     

Tom Lowrie  Carmel M. Diezmann 《Learning and Instruction》2011,21(1):109-125

The capacity to solve tasks that contain high concentrations of visual-spatial information, including graphs, maps and diagrams, is becoming increasingly important in educational contexts as well as everyday life. This research examined gender differences in the performance of students solving graphics tasks from the Graphical Languages in Mathematics (GLIM) instrument that included number lines, graphs, maps and diagrams. The participants were 317 Australian students (169 males and 148 females) aged 9-12 years. Boys outperformed girls on graphical languages that required the interpretation of information represented on an axis and graphical languages that required movement between two- and three-dimensional representations (generally Map language).  相似文献   

How do students process complex formative feedback in question-answering tasks? A think-aloud study     

Máñez  Ignacio  Vidal-Abarca  Eduardo  Kendeou  Panayiota  Martínez  Tomás 《Metacognition and Learning》2019,14(1):65-87

Metacognition and Learning - The goal of this study was to examine how students process formative feedback that included corrective and elaborative information in online question-answering tasks....  相似文献   

Why are Older Faculty Members More Accepting of Students with Attention‐deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? A Life‐course Interpretation     

Tom Buchanan  Matt St. Charles  Michelle Rigler  Charles Hart 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2010,57(4):351-369

The presence of university students in the United States with disabilities is not a new phenomenon. However, little is known about the attitudes of university faculty concerning less visible disabilities such as attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Using a sample of faculty at a university in the United States (n = 136), the impact of age on faculty’s acceptance of ADHD was examined. Results indicated a higher percentage of older faculty members, compared with middle‐aged and younger faculty, selected ADHD as a condition worthy of special instructional accommodations. Irrespective of age of the respondents, ADHD had the lowest acceptance as a condition deserving special accommodations. Finally, fewer middle‐aged and older faculty attributed difficulties experienced by a student with ADHD symptoms to “bad” character, a lack of discipline or a lack of motivation. These findings suggest more emphasis should be placed on disability‐related education and training for faculty members during early stages of their careers.  相似文献   

How siblings resolve their conflicts: the importance of first offers, planning, and limited opposition     

Ross H  Ross M  Stein N  Trabasso T 《Child development》2006,77(6):1730-1745

Sixty-four sibling dyads (4-12 years old; 61% males; 83% European-American) were asked to resolve an ongoing conflict. Older siblings provided leadership by suggesting, modifying, justifying, and requesting assent to plans for conflict resolution. Younger siblings countered and disagreed, but also contributed to planning and agreed to their siblings' plans. Compromises were associated with first offers that met both children's goals, future-oriented planning, and limited opposition. Win-loss outcomes followed offers favoring only one child and arguments over older siblings' plans. Conflicts were unresolved when negotiations included frequent accusations and opposition, but little planning. Thus mutually beneficial conflict resolution required that children shift focus from debating past wrongs to developing plans to meet their unrealized goals in future interaction.  相似文献   

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up     

Tom Shapiro 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2010,53(3):391-393

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“Starchitecture” and its Drawbacks     

Tom L. Freudenheim 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2010,53(4):411-420

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Using a single-item physical activity measure to describe and validate parents' physical activity patterns     

Hamilton K  White KM  Cuddihy T 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2012,83(2):340-345

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Characterising the impact performance of field hockey sticks   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Tom Allen  Leon Foster  Matt Carré  Simon Choppin 《Sports Engineering》2012,15(4):221-226

Published research on field hockey equipment is scarce. The aim of this research was to investigate methods for characterising the impact performance of field hockey sticks. Three sticks were used with fundamental frequencies in the range 74?C154?Hz. Striking an initially still ball with a stick was identified as the preferred method for characterising performance. Impacts were simulated at mean velocities of 19?m/s at toe and 16?m/s at the shaft. The mean apparent coefficient of restitution and standard deviation were ?0.32?±?0.05 at the toe and ?0.18?±?0.02 at the shaft. The foundation work presented here provides the foundations for developing a methodology for characterising the impact performance of field hockey sticks.  相似文献   

The Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the Present     

Tom O’Malley 《Media History》2016,22(2):258-260

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