The impact of structured writing and developing awareness of learning preferences on the performance and attitudes of engineering teams

Advances in Engineering Education

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Dahm, Kevin ^a   Newell, James ^a   Newell, Heidi ^a   Harvey, Roberta ^b  

^a Rowan University   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning connections inventory (LCI); Metacognition; Team dynamics; Teaming; Writing

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERS; ENGINEERING TEAMS; FOUR-GROUP; LEARNING CONNECTIONS INVENTORY (LCI); LEARNING PATTERNS; LEARNING PREFERENCES; METACOGNITION; PERSONAL LEARNING; SECOND GROUP; STRUCTURED WRITING; TEAM PROJECTS; TEAMING SKILLS; WRITING ASSIGNMENTS;

DYNAMICS; ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951274167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19411766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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