Scaffolding to improve reasoning skills in problem formulation

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Jackman, John ^a,b   Ryan, Sarah ^a,b   Ogilvie, Craig ^a   Niederhauser, Dale ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SCAFFOLDS; STEM (SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS); STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES; ENGINEERING ECONOMY; ILL-STRUCTURED PROBLEMS; LEARNING PORTALS; PROBLEM FORMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS; SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; WORK IN TEAMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85029045144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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