Promoting Metacognitive Knowledge and Shared Note-Taking to Learn Electric Circuit Concepts Through Enhanced Guided Notes

工程-电气（55）本项目将笔记策略和元认知的研究结果用于提高学生在工程课程中的学习。 为此，该项目正在开发一套增强的指导说明（EGN）的大二水平电气工程的非专业课程。 增强型指导笔记是教师准备的笔记，学生可以在课堂上和课后添加评论和其他注释。 此外，EGN要求学生评估他们的元认知知识，创建自己的额外电子笔记，然后与同学分享。 该项目有五个目标：（1）开发EGN用于电路概念的课堂教学;（2）在犹他州州立大学的非专业电气工程中实施EGN;（3）评估和比较使用EGN和使用标准指导笔记的学生的学习成绩;（4）了解学生在工程课堂讲座中使用元认知知识的情况;（5）了解学生如何透过参与网上合作记笔记活动，改善他们的记笔记技巧;及（6）制订指引，以制作及实施强化的笔记指引。 该项目包括严格的形成性和总结性评价计划，由一名独立评价员协调质量和数量两个组成部分。 该项目的成果正在通过会议和期刊出版物传播，环境问题网络和其他课程材料可从该项目的网站免费下载。

Engineering - Electrical (55)This project is implementing findings from research on note-taking strategies and metacognition to enhance students' learning in engineering courses. To this end, the project is developing a set of enhanced guided notes (EGNs) for a sophomore level electrical engineering for non-majors course. Enhanced guided notes are instructor-prepared-notes with spaces available for students to add comments and other annotations during and after the class. In addition, the EGNs require students to assess their metacognitive knowledge, create additional electronic notes of their own, and then share them with their classmates. The project has five goals: (1) to develop EGNs for classroom instruction on electric circuit concepts; (2) to implement EGNs in the electrical engineering for non-majors at Utah State University; (3) to evaluate and compare the learning performance of students who use the EGNs and those who use standard guided notes; (4) to understand the students' use of their metacognitive knowledge during engineering classroom lectures; (5) to understand how students' note-taking skills are improved through their engagement in collaborative online note-taking activities; and (6) develop guidelines for the creation and implementation of enhanced guided notes. The project includes rigorous formative and summative evaluation plans with both qualitative and quantitative components coordinated by an independent evaluator. The project's results are being disseminated through conferences and journal publications and the EGNs and other course materials are being made available for free download from the project's website.