Steps toward a sound measure of Engineering student attitudes: Pittsburgh Engineering Attitudes scale - Revised

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hilpert, Jonathan ^a   Stump, Glenda ^b   Husman, Jenefer ^b   Kim, Wonsik ^b   Chung, Wen Ting ^b   Lee, Jieun ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Constructivism; Motivation; Scale development

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVISM; PITTSBURGH; RESEARCH TEAMS; SCALE DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT ATTITUDES; STUDENT RESPONSE;

ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951431306     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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