Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen R. Turns, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

these strategies also draws the attention of bothstudents and teachers to the importance of learning how to learn and solve problems. Studentswho attend to these processes are more likely to detect progress toward their learning goals andhave higher self-efficacy relative to their peers who attend to the quality of final products.39 Taken together, these instructional methods can be employed to help students acquiredeclarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge. In the remainder of this section, we shareideas on how this can be achieved in an introductory thermodynamics course. For our purposes,we define an introductory course to cover the content shown in Table 3. Table 3. Topics Covered in a Typical Introductory

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

underlying sets of items inorder to reduce the number of items necessary to adequately measure those constructs and toassess each factor‟s meaning. [18, 19] Principal axis factoring and direct oblimin oblique rotationwith Kaiser normalization were used to identify factors. Principle axis factoring was chosen inorder to establish the existence of the underlying theoretical constructs [18-20]. Oblimin obliquerotation was selected in the knowledge that any resulting factors may be correlated. [18]Examination of the factor correlation matrix to assess the level of correlation among the factorsand the justification for their independent existence [21] indicated no serious problems.Scales included only items with rotated factor loadings greater than .40