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Transforming Engineering Education: Motivational dynamics and societal relevance through Challenge-based Learning and authentic, real-world educational experiences.
No full textThis doctoral thesis explores motivation in engineering education through authentic, real-world orientated learning experiences, focusing on Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), Work Industry-related Activities (WIAs), and STEM outreach. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), it examines how these practices can support or hinder students’ basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness across educational stages from pre-university to postgraduate levels. Study I reveals that meaningful WIAs that are aligned with student goals enhance motivation and professional identity, while employer-driven tasks may undermine it. Study II’s scoping review identifies a predominance of quantitative research on CBL and student motivation, with limited theory-informed qualitative analysis. Study III analyses student experience data using SDT to show that CBL fosters motivation through autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The same data show that frustration of these psychological needs leads to disengagement. Study IV analyzes Nordic STEM outreach, finding strong support for relatedness and competence but highlighting gaps in fostering autonomy and sustaining long-term interest. The findings emphasize that motivation is enhanced when educational experiences are authentic, relevant, and connected to career aspirations. Motivation, however, is fragile and can be undermined by externally imposed or poorly aligned tasks. Structural tensions arise when pedagogies prioritize market or institutional agendas over student agency, limiting meaningful engagement. This research extends SDT’s application in engineering education beyond classrooms to complex, interdisciplinary contexts. It advocates for “need-liberatory pedagogy” that empowers students as active knowledge co-creators, fostering curiosity, sustainability, and ethical responsibility. Practical implications include designing pedagogies aligned with SDT, promoting inclusive outreach, and embedding psychological metrics in policy and evaluation. The thesis calls for sustained, participatory educational frameworks and outlines future research on autonomy-supportive teaching in CBL settings to deepen understanding of motivational support.Doktorsavhandlingen undersöker motivation inom ingenjörsutbildning genom autentiska, verklighetsnära lärandeupplevelser med fokus på Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), arbetslivsrelaterade aktiviteter (WIAs) och STEM-outreach. Med utgångspunkt i Self-Determination Theory (SDT) analyseras hur dessa metoder stödjer eller hindrar studenters grundläggande psykologiska behov av autonomi, kompetens och samhörighet över utbildningsnivåer från föruniversitär till forskarutbildning. Fyra sammanlänkade studier använder kvalitativa metoder och litteratursyntes. Studie I visar att meningsfulla WIAs som är i linje med studenternas mål ökar motivation och professionell identitet, medan uppgifter styrda av arbetsgivare kan underminera motivationen. Studie II:s översikt identifierar en övervikt av kvantitativ forskning om CBL och studentmotivation, med begränsad teoriinformerad kvalitativ analys. Studie III tillämpar SDT och visar att CBL främjar motivation genom att tillgodose behov av autonomi, kompetens och samhörighet, men att frustration av dessa behov leder till minskat engagemang. Studie IV analyserar nordiska STEM-outreach-aktiviteter och finner starkt stöd för samhörighet och kompetens, men framhäver brister i att främja autonomi och att upprätthålla långsiktigt intresse. Resultaten betonar att motivation stärks när utbildningsupplevelser är autentiska, relevanta och kopplade till karriärambitioner. Samtidigt är motivationen skör och kan försvagas av påtvingade eller dåligt anpassade uppgifter. Strukturella spänningar uppstår när pedagogik prioriterar marknads- eller institutionsagendor framför studenters handlingsutrymme, vilket begränsar kritiskt engagemang. Forskningen utvidgar SDT:s tillämpning inom ingenjörsutbildning bortom klassrum till komplexa, tvärvetenskapliga sammanhang. Den förespråkar en “need-liberatory pedagogy” som ger studenter möjlighet att vara aktiva medskapare av kunskap, och som främjar nyfikenhet, hållbarhet och etiskt ansvarstagande. Praktiska implikationer inkluderar att utforma pedagogik i linje med SDT, främja inkluderande outreach och integrera psykologiska mått i policy och utvärdering. Avhandlingen efterlyser långsiktiga, deltagande utbildningsramar och presenterar framtida forskning om autonomistödjande undervisning i CBL-miljöer för att fördjupa förståelsen av motivationsstöd
The integration of ICT in educational process in IB education-A comparative case study
No full textThis study aims to gain a deep understanding of international baccalaureate (IB) primary years programme (PYP) teachers' perceptions about the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in IB PYP classes. Moreover, it seeks to critically identify the teachers' barriers and needs in order to integrate ICT into teaching and learning. Following a qualitative comparative case study research design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with IB PYP teachers and coordinators in Sweden and Greece. Critical theory, critical pedagogy and critical theory of technology (CTT) were used as the theoretical framework for analysing teachers' perceptions. From a critical point of view, the study reveals that deskilling of teachers, intensification of teachers' work, low school's financial budget, parents' financial burden, commodification and privatisation of IB education are the fundamental factors that negatively intervene in teachers' work in both schools and perpetuate the status quo of teaching and learning processes through integration of ICT.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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