Model-Eliciting Activities: Assessing engineering student problem solving and skill integration processes

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 831-845

  Yildirim, Tuba Pinar ^a   Shuman, Larry ^a   Besterfield Sacre, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment of problem solving; Ethical reasoning; Model Eliciting Activity (Mea); Teaching engineering concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955959206     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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