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- 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Gene Hou, Old Dominion University; Feifei Zhong, Southwest Jiaotong University; Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University
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traditional,descriptive ones. Furthermore, as new technologies continue to progress rapidly and coursecontent and laboratory instrumentation continue to evolve in order to keep pace, laboratorymanuals will also have to be revised frequently in order to stay relevant and effective. A laboratory manual revision process was developed in this study in order to supportthese new types of laboratory classes. It is a four-step process, which includes: 1) CollectingAudience Responses, 2) Scaffolding the Class Project, 3) Project Report Writing Requirementand 4) Peer-Review and Reflection. This development was carried out based upon the technicalwriting framework, as it is believed that technical writing can promote critical thinking andactive learning
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- Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Best Papers
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- 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Jonathan W. Valvano, University of Texas - Austin; Ramesh Yerraballi, University of Texas - Austin; Chad Fulton, University of Texas - Austin
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question rated the simulated labs as helpful or veryhelpful in the process of learning the material. 96% felt the real-board labs were helpful or veryhelpful. Notice that these students rate physical labs much higher than videos, animations, andreading materials.Figure 8. Measure of learning effectiveness differentiated by course content.In this survey we also asked about grading of software style using peer assessment. Table 2shows that this component has room for improvement. The peer assessment was completelyredone for the Spring 2016 class.Table 2. Post-course survey for the Spring 2015 deployment when asked “Peer assessment inLabs 10, 12, or 14 provided me additional insight on writing effective code”.Strongly disagree 3.7%Disagree