Conceptual Gaps in Circuits Textbooks: A Comparative Study
Conceptual Gaps in Circuits Textbooks: A Comparative Study
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电路教科书中的概念差距：比较研究
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发表时间：
2015
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2.6
通讯作者：
B. Jesiek
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作者：
Deepika Sangam;B. Jesiek
许多大学级别的电气工程课程继续使用教科书作为课程支架、规定的文本和/或参考书。教科书的依赖在教授该学科基本原理的课程中更加明显，例如电路理论导论。本文报告了教科书中介绍电路入门理论的概念性内容。更具体地说，使用了一个分析框架对六个文本进行了比较研究，该框架以先前关于概念理解的研究为基础，围绕多个标准进行组织。概念框架和概念链接的想法被用来确定每本教科书中潜在的概念空白。这一分析表明，大多数书籍都缺少许多重要的概念特征。这项研究的发现对作者开发新版本的书籍是有益的，对教师评估和选择课程中使用的文本也是有益的。这项研究还可以为正在进行的开发更有效的教学材料和调查教科书如何影响概念理解的努力提供参考。
Many university-level electrical engineering courses continue to use textbooks as curriculum scaffolds, prescribed texts, and/or reference volumes. Textbook reliance is even more pronounced in courses that teach foundational principles of the discipline, such as introductory circuit theory. This paper reports on the conceptual coverage of introductory electric circuit theory as presented in textbooks. More specifically, a comparative study of six texts was performed using an analytic framework based on prior research on conceptual understanding and organized around multiple criteria. The ideas of conceptual framework and conceptual links are used to identify potential conceptual gaps in each textbook. This analysis reveals that the majority of the books are missing many important conceptual features. Findings from this study can be beneficial for authors as they develop new editions of books, and for instructors as they evaluate and select texts for use in their courses. This study can also inform ongoing efforts to both develop more effective instructional materials and investigate how textbooks affect conceptual understanding.