Factors affecting student attitudes toward active learning activities in a graduate engineering statistics course

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Donohue, Susan K ^a   Richards, Larry G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Graduate engineering education research; Group learning; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCH; ENGINEERING STATISTICS; GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE; GROUP LEARNING; LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS; SMALL GROUPS; STUDENT ATTITUDES; TEAM COMPOSITION; TEAM SIZE;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951469927     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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