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The Impact Of User Centered Design On Student Motivation, Craig T. Locker
The Impact Of User Centered Design On Student Motivation, Craig T. Locker
Open Access Theses
There is a current push for STEM education within the U.S.; however current studies show that students' interest to pursue STEM fields is decreasing as they progress through high school. This lose in interest has shown to have a strong tie to students' perceived levels of motivation towards the subject. The question that this studied set out to answer was if user centered design (UCD) would affect students perceived level of motivation. For this study a treatment of UCD was compared to a traditional high school engineering design curriculum, with the goal to identify if UCD would have a positive …
A Sociocultural Analysis Of Latino High School Students' Funds Of Knowledge And Implications For Culturally Responsive Engineering Education, Joel Alejandro Mejia
A Sociocultural Analysis Of Latino High School Students' Funds Of Knowledge And Implications For Culturally Responsive Engineering Education, Joel Alejandro Mejia
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Previous studies have suggested that, when funds of knowledge are incorporated into science and mathematics curricula, students are more engaged and often develop richer understandings of scientific concepts. While there has been a growing body of research addressing how teachers may integrate students’ linguistic, social, and cultural practices with science and mathematics instruction, very little research has been conducted on how the same can be accomplished with Latino and Latina students in engineering. The purpose of this study was to address this gap in the literature by investigating how fourteen Latino and Latina high school adolescents used their funds of …
Putting Mathematics “Into A Form That A Non-Engineer Will Understand", Eileen Goold
Putting Mathematics “Into A Form That A Non-Engineer Will Understand", Eileen Goold
Conference Papers
This paper discusses the finding that practicing engineers are challenged by putting mathematics “into a form that a non-engineer will understand”.