Conference Session

SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha E. Grady, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ryan Christopher Reuer Gergely, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Student

or to answer via an online course system (or e-mail)Questions that require more higher-order thinking: • What is missing from this solution? (e.g., units, direction, formatting) • Why does the problem we solved fall under this topic? • We came up with solution A, but let’s say we came up with solution B, how can we tell right away that it is incorrect? (e.g., use a common mistake for solution B)One example for the last question is to provide solution B that is too high or too low to makesense for the problem. For example, if the problem is solving for reaction forces for simpleloading on a beam, and the student solves for a reaction force an order of