Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes
Engineering degree programmes include a significant amount of practical work for which national accrediting bodies stipulate a set of laboratory-learning outcomes. This paper sets out to understand how students’ interactions in the laboratory contribute to the attainment of laboratory-learning outco...
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| author | Lal, Sulakshana Lucey, Anthony Lindsay, E.D. Treagust, David Mocerino, Mauro Zadnik, Marjan |
| author_facet | Lal, Sulakshana Lucey, Anthony Lindsay, E.D. Treagust, David Mocerino, Mauro Zadnik, Marjan |
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| description | Engineering degree programmes include a significant amount of practical work for which national accrediting bodies stipulate a set of laboratory-learning outcomes. This paper sets out to understand how students’ interactions in the laboratory contribute to the attainment of laboratory-learning outcomes. The investigation was conducted in the traditional face-to-face laboratory mode. Results from surveys of final-year students and instructors are reported. Students’ and instructors’ perspectives of the relative importance of four main types of student interaction to meet each of the Engineers Australia laboratory-learning outcomes are also presented. Students primarily expected to interact with instructors more than with students (directly or through observation of interactions) or equipment for their achievement of the learning outcomes, whereas instructors reported that all of the interactions are important to achieve the learning outcomes. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-834212021-12-17T02:59:47Z Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes Lal, Sulakshana Lucey, Anthony Lindsay, E.D. Treagust, David Mocerino, Mauro Zadnik, Marjan Engineering degree programmes include a significant amount of practical work for which national accrediting bodies stipulate a set of laboratory-learning outcomes. This paper sets out to understand how students’ interactions in the laboratory contribute to the attainment of laboratory-learning outcomes. The investigation was conducted in the traditional face-to-face laboratory mode. Results from surveys of final-year students and instructors are reported. Students’ and instructors’ perspectives of the relative importance of four main types of student interaction to meet each of the Engineers Australia laboratory-learning outcomes are also presented. Students primarily expected to interact with instructors more than with students (directly or through observation of interactions) or equipment for their achievement of the learning outcomes, whereas instructors reported that all of the interactions are important to achieve the learning outcomes. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83421 10.1080/22054952.2020.1860363 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140104189 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Lal, Sulakshana Lucey, Anthony Lindsay, E.D. Treagust, David Mocerino, Mauro Zadnik, Marjan Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| title | Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| title_full | Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| title_fullStr | Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| title_short | Perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| title_sort | perceptions of the relative importance of student interactions for the attainment of engineering laboratory-learning outcomes |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140104189 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83421 |