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Secules, Stephen; Gupta, Ayush; Elby, Andrew; Turpen, Chandra – Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Background: To explain educational problems such as student attrition, engineering education literature often focuses on the characteristics of individuals. In 2006, Ray McDermott and HervĂ© Varenne called for examining the "cultural construction" of educational problems, uncovering how multiple actors create and inscribe meaning to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, School Holding Power, Student Characteristics
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Williams, Julie Ann Stuart; Stanny, Claudia J.; Reid, Randall C.; Hill, Christopher J.; Rosa, Katie Martin – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
Frequently in Management Science courses, instructors focus primarily on teaching students the mathematics of linear programming models. However, the ability to discuss mathematical expressions in business terms is an important professional skill. The authors present an analysis of student abilities to discuss management science concepts through…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Mathematical Applications, Programming, Administrator Education
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Hamer, John; Purchase, Helen; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Denny, Paul – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
We report on a study comparing peer feedback with feedback written by tutors on a large, undergraduate software engineering programming class. Feedback generated by peers is generally held to be of lower quality to feedback from experienced tutors, and this study sought to explore the extent and nature of this difference. We looked at how…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Programming, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students