Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom (1675)

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah M. Mechtel, United States Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators (NEE)

85% 71% CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PLANSIt is known that students have different ways of learning new concepts. For example somestudents prefer active learning (doing) while others are passive learners (prefer to reflect beforedoing) [3]. Based on this premise, the instructor plans to continue incorporating cooperativelearning techniques in the classroom; although in the subjective opinion of the instructor therewas not an immediate measurable improvement in student test performance. To increase theeffectiveness of the techniques described in this paper, the instructor plans to spend more time