Baghdadchi, S., & Hardesty, R. A., & Hadjipieris, P. A., & Hargis, J. (2018, June), Active Techniques Implemented in an Introductory Signal Processing Course to Help Students Achieve Higher Levels of Learning  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--29750

\bibitem{asee_peer_29750}
  Baghdadchi, S., \& Hardesty, R. A., \& Hadjipieris, P. A., \& Hargis, J. (2018, June), \emph{Active Techniques Implemented in an Introductory Signal Processing Course to Help Students Achieve Higher Levels of Learning}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--29750

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, Rebecca Anne Hardesty, Paul Andreas Hadjipieris, and Jace Hargis.  "Active Techniques Implemented in an Introductory Signal Processing Course to Help Students Achieve Higher Levels of Learning".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/29750 Internet.  15 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_29750}
  Saharnaz Baghdadchi, Rebecca Anne Hardesty, Paul Andreas Hadjipieris, and Jace Hargis.
  "Active Techniques Implemented in an Introductory Signal Processing Course to Help Students Achieve Higher Levels of Learning".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/29750 Internet.  15 Jan, 2025

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title = "Active Techniques Implemented in an Introductory Signal Processing Course to Help Students Achieve Higher Levels of Learning"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Holding students to high standards and assessing, measuring and evaluating their learning with challenging, authentic problems in the midterm and final exams is the goal of the professors who teach core signal processing concepts. However, the heavy reliance of these subjects on mathematics makes it difficult for students to genuinely grasp the concepts and relate to a conceptual framework. Specifically, analyzing the signals and the functionality of systems in Fourier domain; separating the system level analysis from signal level analysis; and understanding how they are related in time domain and frequency domain are among the most challenging concepts. Students’ lower grades observed over past years in the introductory signal processing course exposed a potential disconnect between the actual level of learning and the high expectations set by the professors. In this paper, we present the active learning techniques that we implemented in one of the summer session offerings of this course in our department. The research explored Peer Instruction, pre-class reading quizzes and post-lecture quizzes. In addition to the mid and end of the quarter survey results, the comparison analysis of the grades students achieved in the active learning integrated course in the second summer session and the standard course offered in first summer session is discussed. According to our results, the developed techniques helped students in the active classroom perform significantly better than their peers participating in standard lectures when tested by challenging questions in their exams.

AU  - Saharnaz Baghdadchi
AU  - Rebecca Anne Hardesty
AU  - Paul Andreas Hadjipieris
AU  - Jace Hargis
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
DA  - 2018/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Active Techniques Implemented in an Introductory Signal Processing Course to Help Students Achieve Higher Levels of Learning
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/29750
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--29750
ER  -