Repairing misconceptions: A case study with advanced engineering students on their use of schema training modules

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yang, Dazhi ^a   Streveler, Ruth ^a   Miller, Ronald ^b   Santiago, Aidsa ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficult concepts; Misconceptions; Schema training

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

ADVANCED ENGINEERINGS; DIFFICULT CONCEPTS; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; MISCONCEPTIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; TRAINING MATERIAL; TRAINING MODULES; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029042565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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