CU Thinking

该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助。克莱姆森大学的工程教育研究奖将雇用研究人员调查工程学学生如何组织先验知识和制定有效的问题解决策略。平板电脑将被用来捕捉学生解决方案过程的完整历史，包括所有笔划和擦除。这将使分析错误和确定低效战略和误解成为可能。由于有效的问题解决是所有工程学科的基础，因此对问题解决步骤序列和分析结果进行分析的方法将对认知科学和工程教育做出重要贡献。这项工作可以为课程改革提供指导，通过制定有效的问题解决策略来改善学生的学习，并将有助于更好地为工程师填补工程工作的空缺做好准备。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to Clemson University will employ researchers to investigate how engineering students organize prior knowledge and develop effective problem solving strategies. Tablet PCs will be used to capture a complete history of students' solution processes including all strokes and erasures. This will allow analysis of mistakes and identification of inefficient strategies and misconceptions. Since effective problem solving is fundamental to all engineering disciplines, the methods developed to analyze sequences of problem solving steps and the results of the analysis will make important contributions to cognitive science and engineering education. This work can provide guidance for curricular changes to improve student learning by developing efficient problem solving strategies and will contribute to better preparation of engineers to fill engineering jobs.