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

工程-电气（55）本项目实施了关于记笔记策略和元认知的研究成果，以增强学生在工程课程中的学习。为此，该项目正在为电气工程专业二年级的非专业课程编写一套增强型指南（egn）。增强型指导笔记是由教师准备的笔记，其中留有空间供学生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，自己制作额外的电子笔记，然后与同学分享。该项目有五个目标：(1)开发用于电路概念课堂教学的egn；(2)在犹他州立大学非专业电气工程中实施egn；(3)评估和比较使用自主学习网络和使用标准指导笔记的学生的学习表现；(4)了解学生在工程课堂教学中运用元认知知识的情况；(5)了解学生如何通过参与协作式在线笔记活动提高笔记技能；(6)为增强型指导说明的创建和实施制定指导方针。该项目包括严格的形成性和总结性评估计划，包括由独立评估人员协调的定性和定量组成部分。该项目的成果正在通过会议和期刊出版物传播，并从该项目的网站上免费提供环境评估报告和其他课程材料。

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.