Conference Session

The 2017 Zone Best Paper Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Council of Sections

) immediately after theuse of technology to measure learning; 2) ten weeks after the intervention to measure retention;and 3) 25 weeks after the intervention to measure long-term retention. The instrument used inthese measurements was developed with the input of four different professors who all taughtstatics. In a previous study, this instrument, as well as the pretest, were found to be valid andreliable19. Figure 3 illustrates the timeline of each of these assessments. At ten weeks, studentswere still enrolled in statics and so the retention posttest was administered in class. At 25 weeks,the civil engineering students were enrolled in a mechanics of materials class; instructors indifferent sections of that course allowed for the administration of

Conference Session

The 2017 Zone Best Paper Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eileen Haase Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Harry R. Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University

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Council of Sections

with varied backgrounds and diverse learning styles Eileen Haase and Harry Goldberg Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical EngineeringAbstractStudents in “Molecules and Cells” completed a survey to assess their learning preferences.Almost two-thirds of the students were multimodal, learning through a combination of visual,aural, read/write, or kinesthetic modes. This supported our view that a diverse learningenvironment with a variety of learning modalities would make a significant contribution to thestudents’ understanding and retention of the material. These methods included: lectures withclass demonstrations, team based learning, formative assessments through “clicker questions

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Andrew Petersen, University of Toronto Mississauga

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Council of Sections

feedback tostudents is dependent on faculty time and the availability of grading support. The pressures onfaculty time are discussed at length at conferences and meetings, and institutional budgets dictatewhether grading support is available. In practice, this means that feedback is provided moreslowly than desired, but team testing provides immediate feedback by exposing students to theirpeers’ understanding of the material and testing their ability to contribute to the group’s solution.By providing students with more timely feedback, team testing reinforces foundationalknowledge that the remainder of the course requires.In the next section, we describe the baseline team testing implementation. Section 3 provides thepedagogical theory supporting