Improving engineering skills in high school students: a partnership between university and K-12 teachers

Salas-Morera, Lorenzo; Cejas-Molina, María Antonia; Olivares-Olmedilla, José L.; Climent, M. S.; Leva-Ramírez, Josefa A.; Martínez-Jiménez, Pilar

doi:10.1007/s10798-012-9223-7

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“…There have been attempts to improve the quality of STEM subjects at the high school level with the aim of establishing the proper coordination between university and high school to avoid the decline in engineering enrollments. It is possible to achieve by focusing on the weakest concepts freshmen have when starting the engineering studies and working on improving high school programs that cover those concepts [2]. The benefit of this intervention can propagate to the workplace and achieve higher levels of quality for engineers involved in industry and academic projects.…”

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A Learning Model for Lifelong Education of Computer Engineers

Kastelan,

Popovic,

Bjelica

2023

IEEE Access

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It has been noted that education advances at a much slower rate than modern technologies. Rapid development of modern technologies has led to the increasing need for high quality engineers, but the Universities usually do not keep the same pace. This increases the importance of lifelong learning for engineers, especially those working in quickly developing disciplines such as computer engineering and specialized software for consumer and automotive technologies. The objective of this paper is to propose a learning model suitable for application in lifelong learning setting, aimed at agile education of engineers in the computer engineering field. One example course that follows this learning model is presented in detail. The learning model was applied in courses offered to computer engineers working in consumer and automotive industries. Learning effectiveness of the proposed model was measured by summative assessment in the courses. Experiences from learners that were collected in the end-of-course surveys provide insight into positive and negative aspects of this learning model. The overall feedback received from learners was positive and this may indicate that the proposed learning model has advantages over existing models used in lifelong education.

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A Learning Model for Lifelong Education of Computer Engineers

Kastelan,

Popovic,

Bjelica

2023

IEEE Access

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“…Motivation is particularly important for students who are weaker or have fear of failure (Koenke, 1981, as cited in Yang, 2003bKeller, 2006b). In engineering graphics courses at engineering colleges, freshers generally come from different high schools and have different technical backgrounds when beginning the program (Metraglia et al, 2011(Metraglia et al, , 2013Salas-Morera et al, 2013). Students from non-tecnical schools tend to have less attention during the lessons the more they feel the treated topics are too complicated.…”

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Engineering Graphics Education: Webcomics as a Tool to Improve Weaker Students' Motivation

Metraglia¹,

Villa²

2014

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In engineering colleges, first-year students come from different kinds of high school and have different technical backgrounds. In engineering graphics courses, the weaker students are the ones entering with a lower technical background. Such students are less motivated and have generally difficulties in keeping high their attention level during the lessons. In this study, the use of a webcomics structured in graphic novels was experimented as a motivational support in an engineering graphics course. Sixty nine students of a class taught by using webcomics as support and 47 students of a class taught traditionally were classified according to the kind of their high school of provenience: technical; scientific; non-technical and non-scientific. The findings showed that in the class where webcomics were used, students from non-technical and non-scientific high school scored a higher level of attention compared to others. The teacher who used the webcomics commented it an effective tool to encourage and stimulate weaker learners to actively participate to the lessons and the majority of students agreed such tool was stimulating. At the same time, some students considered the webcomics representation of engineering graphics topics as too far from the reality. It is concluded that the use of webcomics structured in graphic novels is a proficient way to better motivate weaker students to arouse and keep their attention at a high level during engineering graphics lessons.

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“…Otros investigadores (Salas Morera, L. et al, 2013), estudian cómo mejorar el nivel de conocimientos y habilidades de los estudiantes al ingresar en los programas de ingeniería y su opinión general sobre los estudios de ingeniería.…”

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Improving engineering skills in high school students: a partnership between university and K-12 teachers

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

A Learning Model for Lifelong Education of Computer Engineers

A Learning Model for Lifelong Education of Computer Engineers

Engineering Graphics Education: Webcomics as a Tool to Improve Weaker Students' Motivation

Análisis de la incorporación de metodologías colaborativas en materias proyectuales en las enseñanzas de Ingeniería Industrial

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