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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dean C. Millar

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rosalind Wynne

direct assessment of the reflective learning activities in theform of exam grade trends indicated that student understanding of the course material improvedsignificantly, students did not attribute their progress to the journaling activities adopted in thecourse. Only activities such as simulations and traditional homework assignments wereconsidered by the student to be influential in assisting in the learning process. Journalingtechniques are often limited to design-courses that develop “soft-skills” in engineers and areusually not considered to be helpful to mastering analytical problem sets. This talk will identifythe conflicting educational paradigms that cause students to not value reflective activities andanalytical exercises equally