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Assessing Engineering Epistemology:A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments
Full text linkThis research paper presents an overview and evaluation of existing instruments utilized to assess epistemological beliefs, beliefs people hold regarding the nature of knowledge and knowing, including how knowledge is constructed and its certainty or tentativeness, within the context of engineering education. Assessment of epistemological beliefs in engineering education is crucial for understanding students' perspectives on knowledge and learning. To successfully carry out such an assessment, we need validated reliable psychometric tools. A literature review on the subject revealed a lack of evidence on the state of knowledge on epistemology in engineering education. To address that gap, we conducted a systematic literature review spanning from 1997 to 2023 across representative databases and journals in the field and guided by the question, "What existing instruments are designed to measure or characterize epistemological beliefs in engineering?" The search revealed two instruments, and upon further examination, we concluded that none of the quantitative instruments already available are based on a conceptually coherent and empirically robust model of epistemic development in engineering, and hence can't be used to produce reliable measures. The engineering education research community need to dedicate efforts towards designing and validating an engineering-specific epistemological tool. The creation and validation of such an instrument is a step towards understanding epistemological beliefs among engineering students, which in turn is crucial for effective instructional design and curriculum development. We posit that such development offers a nuanced supplement to conventional grading-centric assessments.</p
Strengthening Student Learning: From Outcome-based to Process-based Learning
Full text linkThis workshop introduces a shift towards process-level outcomes in engineering education, focusing on equipping educators with the means to foster critical thinking, reflection, and a growth mindset among students. Central to the workshop is a hands-on approach where participants actively engage in redefining knowledge-related learning objectives from existing courses into process-oriented outcomes. Educators will start crafting a rubric for self-assessment that embodies these new learning outcomes and development steps, setting the stage for the design of the educational experience. This practical exercise not only enhances the applicability of the concepts but also ensures educators leave with actionable tools to implement a more engaged, reflective learning environment. By focusing on process in addition tooutcomes and by incorporating active participation in rubric creation, the workshop aligns with the latest educational research, promising impact on engineering education by introducing educators to new transformative ways of teaching
DRONE GAME THAT HIGHLIGHTS ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DESIGN DECISIONS
No full textThis paper reports on the development of a brief scenario-based challenge to prompt engineering students’ reflection about the broader impacts of their design decisions, and thereby increase their ethical sensitivity and motivation. The game scenario asks players to design a drone for ornithologists to study birds, contextualized as part of a university course. Constrained by their budget, players choose a subset from a variety of actions that can advance their drone design. Each action, for example spending a week prototyping in the lab (200€) or making a one-day field trip with the ornithologists (1000€), allows the players to access specific information and make choices to refine their design. Presenting the task as a mechanical engineering design problem, without reference to ethics or sustainability, gives us a window into how students spontaneously include these aspects in their design decisions. This is important, as previous studies have shown that engineers typically interpret their brief as restricted only to their core engineering disciplinary expertise and do not perceive the ethical implications of their design decisions. The feedback that participants receive after submitting their final prototype highlights potential ethical and environmental issues, with a view to increasing both students’ ethical sensitivity (recognising that an ethical concern exists) and ethical motivation (internal drive towards behaviours coherent with ethical values). This paper reports on the scenario development and first implementation as an online game that constitute the semester project of the second author. We share preliminary participant feedback and our plans for a tangible interface with tabletop robots to observe participants’ decision-making processes through haptic functionality and afford opportunities to integrate peer discussions in the activity.AVP-E-LEARNCHIL
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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