Student misconceptions in signals and systems and their origins

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Nasr, Reem ^a,b   Hall, Steven R ^c   Garik, Peter ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Misconceptions; Ontological categorization; Phenomenological primitives; Signals and systems

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; ONTOLOGICAL CATEGORIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CURRICULA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SIGNAL THEORY; STUDENTS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 1642520658     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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