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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Constantin Ciocanel; Mohammad Elahinia

testing, such as strain gages, load frames, impact hammers, and spectrum analyzers;(2) reinforced material studied in previous mechanics and vibrations courses; (3) improved dataanalysis skills, and (4) further developed laboratory and technical writing skills.”Prior to this redevelopment, as part of the subject-based approach, a classroom lecture precededeach laboratory session. The lecture consisted of the review of the theory pertaining to eachexperiment to help students refresh their knowledge on the subject. Additionally the descriptionand procedure of the laboratory experiment was covered during this lecture. Prior to each class,the lecture notes, along with the laboratory procedures, were posted on the course website. Thestep-by-step

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Keith E. Holbert; George G. Karady

—specifically a K-12 school teacher—toprovide authoritative source(s) of the STATEMENT, what was envisioned as a simple search andproof would ultimately reveal a lack of evidence for the cited statistics. The STATEMENT beingreferred to here is that people (or students) learn (or recall/remember): • 10% of what they read • 20% of what they hear • 30% of what they see • 50% of what they hear and see • 70% of what they say (and write) • 90% of what they say as they do a thingThere are various forms and permutations of the STATEMENT found in published literature. Thispaper details the results of the quest to find support for the STATEMENT. This is not the firstinvestigation into the source of these numbers, as our literature search

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Peg Pankowski

skills in a groupenvironment”, now lists the following assessment methods: Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education • “Ethical practices are emphasized throughout the course of study and student actions (academic practices and honesty) are continuously observed and corrected during academic instruction • Students assist in the completion of group projects and receive satisfactory participation grade from peers • Students must display ethical and interpersonal skills during group presentations • Results of individual group assignments and peer comments will be

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Christos Valiotis

instructional strategies have been developed for the teaching of problem solvingin physics. Among them are: 1. Cooperative group problem solving using Context Rich Problems [CRP]4. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education 2. Qualitative strategy writing- where students explain how they would solve the problem before attempting mathematical manipulations5. 3. Modeling instruction- where students discuss problems before solving them and resolved conflicting ideas while attempting the solutions6. The purpose of this research study is to explore

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

MESA Community College Program (MCCP) assists community college students so that they can transfer to four-year institutions as majors in math-based fields. The MESA Engineering Program (MEP) helps students at major California universities to attain degrees in engineering and computer science. Specific MESA services offered to all participants include: individualized academic planning, community building, learning opportunities, study skills training, peer group learning, mentoring, career exploration, professional development, and transfer assistance. Furthermore, MESA provides rigorous academic development that offers pre-college students math and science curriculum based on the California Math and Science Standards, while creating

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jeffrey J. Heys

entering material for otherstudents to note that they were doing so in the ‘discussion’ area of each page.We have found the wiki format to be useful for projects in a Mass and Energy Balances course,but this does not mean that this is a useful format for projects in other courses. For example, therigorous formatting requirements of a senior laboratory reports, such as flowsheets, equipmentdiagrams, and numerous chemical and mathematical formulas, would make the use of a wikidifficult. Also, if a project report is more than 10 pages, the wiki format may not be appropriatebecause it requires that the person preparing the report be actively connected to the internetduring the entire time they are writing. In summary, we tend to prefer using wikis in