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Bara, Jason Edward; McLemore, John Patrick – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
There appears to be no published knowledge regarding how humans use unit conversions. Until very recently, acquiring such data would be essentially impossible, but mobile devices have now enabled many questions to be answered through passive "crowdsourcing" of big data sets. This work details the analysis of five years of anonymous user…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Computation
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Herman, G. L.; Zilles, C.; Loui, M. C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
The authors conducted a qualitative interview-based study to reveal students' misconceptions about state in sequential circuits. This paper documents 16 misconceptions of state, how students' conceptions of state shift and change, and students' methodological weaknesses. These misconceptions can be used to inform and direct instruction. This study…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Metric System, Misconceptions, Concept Formation
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Altanopoulou, Panagiota; Dontsidou, Maria; Tselios, Nikolaos – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
In this article, 93 Greek university departments were evaluated according to their academics' h-index. A representative sample from the fields of social sciences and humanities, sciences, engineering, pharmacy and economics was adopted. In the reported study, 3354 (approximately 1 out of 3) academics serving in Greek universities were evaluated.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines, Humanities