The Pilot Investigation of the Competency-oriented Collaboration Practice in Mechanical Engineering Students

Chen, Shu-Ling; Hsu, Hung-Pin; Lee, Yu-Ching; Lo, Yu-Hsuan; Kao, Chia‐Pin; Chu, Chia-Chun; Hsu, Yi-Chu

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“…Overall, fifty-eight 58 senior mechanical engineering students, 50 males and 8 females, participated in this study. Three questionnaires used in this study: Inventory of Criticalthinking Dispositions, ICTD [39], collaboration questionnaire [29,40,41], and the learning experience opinions investment (LEOI) [42]. The quantitative data are analyzed by means, standard deviation, and paired sample T test by the statistical software SPSS 23.0.…”

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“…There are three questionnaires used in this study: Inventory of Critical-thinking Dispositions, ICTD [39], collaboration questionnaire [29,40,41] and the learning experience opinions investment (LEOI) [42]. The learning aspects and the qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools designed to cultivate the CT and collaboration competencies were listed in Table 2.…”

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An Action Research in Critical Thinking Concept Designed Curriculum Based on Collaborative Learning for Engineering Ethics Course

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(1) Background: Critical thinking, CT, contributes to success in both career and higher education, and may be more important than professional content knowledge. Nevertheless, it is challenging to cultivate CT in a standalone course, especially for the engineering students who think less critically than those in other colleges. (2) Methods: This research incorporated CT concept into 18 weeks curriculum of Engineeringethics and Society course, with the assistance of collaborative learning process for formative assessment and problem-based learning for summative assessment, in addition to 3 questionnaires to evaluate the progress in CT and collaboration. (3) Results: Both measurements in CT and collaboration improved significantly. In general, the participants enjoyed the course materials and thought these CT and values infused course activities were helpful to the learning. On the other hand, CT was also the most noticeable problem. About one over every five participants lacked the habit to think, while 17% of participants were afraid of complex questions to think. In addition, 10% doubted their CT skills. It concludes that total 46% participants thought CT is their most crucial shortage. (4) Conclusions: the pretest demonstrated the CT of the participants was below the college norm; fortunately, the assistance of the social interaction, including team work practices, peer evaluation, and pressure to push individuals work harder and think deeper, did promote their CT cognitive development.

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An Action Research in Critical Thinking Concept Designed Curriculum Based on Collaborative Learning for Engineering Ethics Course

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A Pilot Study to Incorporate Collaboration and Energy Competency into an Engineering Ethics Course

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According to the OECD, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and other education policy experts all over the world, an urgent reform is needed to promote education innovation with “competencies” as the core. To investigate the feasibility to apply competency-oriented education, this pilot study surveyed the competencies of “collaboration” and “energy” and applied competency-oriented contents into an Engineering Ethics course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The literature reveals that collaboration includes three constructs: trust, communication, and coordination. These constructs were used to develop a questionnaire and to survey the collaboration competency of the research subjects. In addition, an energy perception survey for Taiwan was used to compare and analyze the energy competencies between the research subject and the general adults in Taiwan. Finally, some suggestions are proposed for competency implementation in future courses.

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The Pilot Investigation of the Competency-oriented Collaboration Practice in Mechanical Engineering Students

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An Action Research in Critical Thinking Concept Designed Curriculum Based on Collaborative Learning for Engineering Ethics Course

An Action Research in Critical Thinking Concept Designed Curriculum Based on Collaborative Learning for Engineering Ethics Course

A Pilot Study to Incorporate Collaboration and Energy Competency into an Engineering Ethics Course

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