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Beyond the Dichotomy of Students-as-Consumers and Personal Transformation: What Students Want from Their Degrees and Their Engagement with Knowledge
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Paul Ashwin; Benjamin Goldschneider; Ashish Agrawal; Reneé Smit – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
There is widespread concern that students are increasingly becoming passive consumers of education who primarily attend university to obtain the credentials they need for the labour market. To interrogate this view, a longitudinal qualitative study examined what 47 students in three countries wanted to get out of studying for their degree (their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
Why Knowledge Is Central to 'Graduateness' -- Implications for Research and Policy
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Paul Ashwin – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2025
Debates about the employability of graduates in policy and research have increasingly focused on graduates' employment outcomes and the development of generic employability skills. This suggests that the knowledge that students engage with in their degrees is far less important than the generic attributes they develop, which promotes a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Employment Potential
Student Perspectives on Assessment: Connections between Self and Society
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McArthur, Jan; Blackie, Margaret; Pitterson, Nicole; Rosewell, Kayleigh – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
This article explores STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) student associations of assessment with individual achievement, becoming part of a discipline or profession, or developing an orientation towards society. This perspective is based in Frankfurt School critical theory, which argues for the inter-relation between…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry
Comparing Learning in Unit Operations Courses across Three Modalities: Domestic, Four-Week Study Abroad, and Eight-Week Study Abroad
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Andrea L. Schuman; Alaa Abdalla; Jennifer Case; David B. Knight – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
Study abroad attempts to prepare students to effectively work in a multi-national environment. This study compares students' experiences in a unit operations laboratory course offered in multiple modalities: at students' home university, and four- and eight-week study abroad. The results examine the impact of support on students' learning and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Length, Comparative Analysis, Educational Experience
Results of the 2010 Survey on Teaching Chemical Reaction Engineering
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Silverstein, David L.; Vigeant, Margot A. S. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2012
A survey of faculty teaching the chemical reaction engineering course or sequence during the 2009-2010 academic year at chemical engineering programs in the United States and Canada reveals change in terms of content, timing, and approaches to teaching. The report consists of two parts: first, a statistical and demographic characterization of the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
A Survey of the Role of Thermodynamics and Transport Properties in Chemical Engineering University Education in Europe and the USA
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Ahlstrom, Peter; Aim, Karel; Dohrn, Ralf; Elliott, J. Richard; Jackson, George; Jaubert, Jean-Noel; Macedo, Eugenia A.; Pokki, Juha-Pekka; Reczey, Kati; Victorov, Alexey; Zilnik, Ljudmila Fele; Economou, Ioannis G. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2010
A survey on the teaching of thermodynamics and transport phenomena in chemical engineering curricula in European and US Universities was performed and results are presented here. Overall, 136 universities and colleges responded to the survey, out of which 81 from Europe and 55 from the USA. In most of the institutions responding at least two…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Foreign Countries