Looking beyond content: Skill development for engineers

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-307

  Redish, Edward F ^a   Smith, Karl A ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive expertise; Mathematical modeling; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTIVE EXPERTISE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BEST PRACTICES; INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS; SKILL DEVELOPMENT;

STUDENTS;

EID: 68949097685     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00980.x     Document Type: Article

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