Fundamentals in civil engineering and computers-a freshman course

A Cost‐Effectiveness Model for the Assessment of Educational Productivity

“…An additional weekly conference session was led by graduate TAs Miller and Groccia, 1997). In engineering and computer science courses (Demetry and Groccia, 1997;DiBiasio and Groccia, 1995;Hart and Groccia, 1994;Wills and Finkel, 1994), it was typical for PLAs to meet with groups of students to facilitate the solution of weekly problem sets, longer-term group projects, and laboratory exercises, although biology was the only instance of such a radical reorganization as having the major course activity be large-group projects. In mathematics (Davis, 1994a(Davis, , 1994b, PLAs led conference sessions of about twelve students, with the objective of reinforcing lecture material and assisting with problem solving.…”