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First-Year Engineering Students' Mathematics Task Performance and Its Relation to Their Motivational Values and Views about Mathematics
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Tossavainen, Timo; Rensaa, Ragnhild Johanne; Haukkanen, Pentti; Mattila, Mika; Johansson, Monica – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
This study investigates Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish first-year engineering students' task performance in mathematics and examines how it relates to their motivational values and beliefs about the nature of mathematics. In a set of seven mathematical tasks, female students outperformed male students, for example, in the simplification of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Value Judgment
Engineering Students' Approaches to Learning and Views on Collaboration: How Do Both Evolve in a PBL Environment and What Are Their Contributing and Constraining Factors?
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Du, Xiangyun; Ebead, Usama; Sabah, Saed; Ma, Jianping; Naji, Khalid Kamal – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Background: This study investigated the development of engineering students' approaches to learning and views on collaboration in a PBL environment. Material and methods: An explanatory mixed research approach was employed with participants from four PBL-implementing engineering courses in Qatar and China. 197 students responded to two surveys,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning