Student learning profiles in two innovative honours degree engineering programmes

Culver, R.; Cox, Peter; Sharp, John M.; FitzGibbon, Ann

doi:10.1007/bf01212806

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“…The field of engineering has embraced the Perry scheme to better understand the progression of thought development of students in this discipline (Culver, Cox, Sharp, & Fitzgibbon, 1994; Culver & Hackos, 1982; Culver, Woods, & Fitch, 1990; Marra & Palmer, 2004, 1999; Marra, Palmer, & Litzinger, 2000; Palmer et al, 2000; Pavelich, 1996; Pavelich & Fitch, 1998; Pavelich & Moore, 1996, 1993; Pavelich, Olds, & Miller, 1995; Wise et al, 2004, 2001). Research conducted at the Colorado School of Mines used a cross‐sectional sample of engineering freshman, sophomore, and senior students (Pavelich & Moore, 1996).…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Mature Thinkers in Interior Design: Pathways of Intellectual Development

Carmel-Gilfilen

Portillo

2010

Journal of Interior Design

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Critical thinking skills are essential to meeting the economic, sustainable, and social challenges of the future. The purpose of this study was to explore critical thinking in interior design students using the W. G. Perry (1968) scheme, a model of epistemic cognitive development describing how thinking in college students progresses from black-and-white absolutes to a contextual understanding of knowledge. The authors present findings from a study involving 32 beginning and intermediate interior design students who were empirically assessed on global and design-specific thought development using the Measure of Intellectual Development (Widick & Knefelkamp, 1974) and the Measure of Designing (Portillo, 1987), respectively. The study objectives were to examine thought development in interior design students, investigate the relationship between global and design thinking, and explore relationships between thought development, student performance, and class standing. The results supported three levels of thought development: dualistic, transitional, and multiplistic with overall thinking appeared to be more advanced than thinking in design. The study also revealed both types of thinking significantly related to studio performance and class standing. The Perry model appears to have strong potential for understanding thought development in interior design students.

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Creating Mature Thinkers in Interior Design: Pathways of Intellectual Development

Carmel-Gilfilen

Portillo

2010

Journal of Interior Design

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“…Compared with traditional entry students, it was found that the non-traditional students in this innovative course had higher levels of extraversion and feeling. Another test showed that they tended to converge on the problem rather than explore other possibilities [41].…”

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Empowering Professional Teaching in Engineering: Sustaining the Scholarship of Teaching

Heywood

2018

Synthesis Lectures on Engineering

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Each one of us has views about education, how discipline should function, how individuals learn, how they should be motivated, what intelligence is, and the structures (content and subjects) of the curriculum. Perhaps the most important beliefs that (beginning) teachers bring with them are their notions about what constitutes "good teaching". The scholarship of teaching requires that (beginning) teachers should examine (evaluate) these views in the light of knowledge currently available about the curriculum and instruction, and decide their future actions on the basis of that analysis. Such evaluations are best undertaken when classrooms are treated as laboratories of inquiry (research) where teachers establish what works best for them. Two instructor centred and two learner centred philosophies of knowledge, curriculum and instruction are used to discern the fundamental (basic) questions that engineering educators should answer in respect of their own beliefs and practice. They point to a series of classroom activities that will enable them to challenge their own beliefs, and at the same time affirm, develop, or change their philosophies of knowledge, curriculum and instruction.

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“…Early intellectual development research findings suggested that people have domain-general views of knowledge and subsequent models were based on this finding [12]. Though a majority of current intellectual development research is now looking at domain-specific and domain-general/domain-specific hybrid models [18][19][20][21], most published engineering education research with respect to intellectual development uses domaingeneral intellectual models [1], [3], [6], [13]. For this study, we investigated three of the bestknown domain-general intellectual development models.…”

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“…For this study, we chose Perry's SIED model because of its use in other research of the intellectual development of engineering students [1][2][3], [6].…”

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“…One idea that is being used by some engineering educators that seems to be having success improving student's grades is the identification of students' learning style preferences and tailoring aspects of the class to them [4], [5]. Although there have been studies giving an overview on engineering students with respect to intellectual development and learning styles [1], [6][7][8][9], there has been little published work trying to find an overlap between the two. This paper examines an ongoing study that is investigating if the learning style of engineering students has an effect on the intellectual development.…”

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An Examination of the Relationship Between Intellectual Development and Learning Preferences in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ongoing)

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Student learning profiles in two innovative honours degree engineering programmes

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Creating Mature Thinkers in Interior Design: Pathways of Intellectual Development

Creating Mature Thinkers in Interior Design: Pathways of Intellectual Development

Empowering Professional Teaching in Engineering: Sustaining the Scholarship of Teaching

An Examination of the Relationship Between Intellectual Development and Learning Preferences in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ongoing)

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