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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

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Andrew Charles Bartolini, University of Notre Dame

Paper ID #45090FULL PAPER - Implementing Exam Wrappers in a First-Year EngineeringCourseDr. Andrew Charles Bartolini, University of Notre Dame Director, First-Year Engineering Program, University of Notre Dame Associate Teaching Professor, University of Notre Dame 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE): Boston, Massachusetts Jul 28 Implementing Exam Wrappers in a First-Year Engineering CourseIntroductionThis full paper examines the implementation of exam wrappers into a first-year engineeringcomputing course. Exam wrappers allow students to reflect on how prepared they were forcourse exams and how

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

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Longfei Zhou, Gannon University; Varun K Kasaraneni, Gannon University; Longyan Chen, Gannon University; Ahmed Abuhussein, Gannon University

phases.4. Faculty Reflections and Plans for Future ImprovementsAddressing core concerns like fair assessment, structured guidance, and emphasis on engineeringfundamentals can significantly enhance the ENG 102 course. Feedback suggests incorporatingmore frequent classes and better resource availability to align the course with engineeringdemands. Responding to this, faculty will focus on popular components like the Arduino and 3Dprinting workshops, shifting towards more project-based learning by reducing lecture hours. Otherproposed improvements include introducing peer evaluations to balance team contributions,adjusting the computer application workshop to cater to diverse student backgrounds by includinga range of computing tools, and ensuring

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

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Atheer Almasri, West Virginia University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, West Virginia University; Carter Hulcher, West Virginia University; Todd R Hamrick, West Virginia University; Xinyu Zhang, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University

over teamwork. Civil engineering students' priorities were closelyaligned with those of chemical engineering students, emphasizing effective teamwork and timemanagement. Conversely, in the computer and electrical engineering department, managing timeand self-directed learning emerged as top priorities, reflecting the unique demands of thesedisciplines.Engineering projects in upper-level engineering classes often require collaboration among teams.Effective teamwork ensured that team members could communicate ideas, delegate tasks, andwork together efficiently to achieve project goals. Also, teamwork and time management werecritical skills in engineering because they facilitated collaboration, improved efficiency, enhancedproblem-solving

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

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David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Olivia Ryan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; James Nathaniel Newcomer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hamidreza Taimoory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

student persistence in the College ofEngineering. A total of 7723 students were enrolled in the College of Engineering in their secondyear (88.5%), while 1004 students reported leaving Virginia Tech or enrolling in other colleges(11.5%). The demographic data are presented inTable 3 of the Appendix.Data LimitationsWe report here only on whether students remain in the College of Engineering at the institutethey started in. We would therefore not differentiate between students who left the universityaltogether and those that transferred to a different institution. These data span the period leadingup to the COVID-19 pandemic and do not reflect the dramatic changes experienced across manyeducation contexts. Although this analysis does not include

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2023 CIEC

Authors

James Kribs

semesters, each group proposed its own research topic based upon material covered inthe course and their own background research. In previous semesters, students conductedapproximately 3 projects. As part of the CURE experience, students were expected to completethe entire range of the scientific method and having to reflect on each step as they conducted theexperiment. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2023, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 545Students were asked to complete a pretest prior to the start of the CURE project and a post testafter the project

Conference Session

Mathematics and Material Science

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ASEE Southeast Section Conference

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Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Todd Wittman, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

the onlinediscussion board, which required them to demonstrate conceptual mastery of topics. In addition,students completed weekly journal submissions, which required critical reflection of coursepreparation, performance, and application to civil engineering.Weekly, students attended an engineering seminar, hosted by a civil engineering faculty. Theseminar was designed to provide students with tangible examples of how course material wouldconnect with students’ future classes and profession. Activities were related to early engineeringfundamentals courses (e.g., Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials), as well asapplications of specific civil engineering subdisciplines (e.g., Structural, and Geotechnicalengineering) (Table 1). The

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abigail Tubbs, University of North Dakota; Paige Beduhn, University of North Dakota; Ryan Striker, University of North Dakota; Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, University of North Dakota; Dan Ewert, University of North Dakota

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

significant time commitmentrequired by the program - 15 hours a week per week for each team member over seven weeks –may have hindered some student’s ability to engage in the project entirely. A more feasibleapproach may students enrolled in multiple IBL courses, as this would better align better with thetime demands of the NSF program. Some results are based on self-assessed opinions, which maynot reflect actual outcomes. Further analysis may be needed to better understand the impact of I-Corps and IBL on engineering education.VII. Conclusion As this study is in its early stages, a definitive conclusion regarding the impact ofintegrating IBL principles with the NSF I-Corps program in engineering education is yet to bedrawn. However, the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey; Allen C. Jaedike; Peter S. Rhode

perusal and reflection that may be of use to others teaching future CAD courses or others, such as students interested in CAD work in a BSME program. In addition, one can see the natural evolution of the course since it was first taught. The projects demonstrate the application of CAD knowledge acquired in the freshman Engineering Graphics course where SolidWorksTM has been taught recently. However, because of the wide applicability of CAD, projects from many other courses (such as Introduction to Engineering, Kinematics and Mechanism Design, Machine Design, and the Senior Design Clinic sequence) are emphasized (although not all of them are showcased) as well. Finally, because of the success of the Engineering Graphics course

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kyu-Jung Kim; Amir Rezaei

learning of machine design using MDT in a computer labsetting. The MDT is expected to have a major impact on student’s retention of classroommaterials. It has been observed by Kolb [1] that active experimentation leads to better than 90%retention of material compared to a 30% retention for reflective observations.Programming Rationale for the MDT The MDT has been developed using de facto numerical analysis software, MATLAB, bytaking advantage of its user-friendly interactive graphic user interface (GUI) and multipledocument interface capabilities. Development of the MDT using MATLAB was a meritoriouschoice for many reasons, since its versatile computational power, easy graphical user interface,and availability of numerous toolboxes have lead

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

me 3.7% 14.8% 22.2% 25.9% 33.3% 0.0%The students already show a relatively high enthusiasm for both their Mechanical Engineeringmajor (question 1) as well as for their chosen career path (question 2), even before the RPtechnology is introduced. These high results reflect anecdotal observations from the MechanicalEngineering Department that introductory CAD classes are currently well received by newlyenrolled students. Data from the post-RP class of Spring 2008 will be compared to thisinformation to see if RP had any positive, negative, or no impact to the class.For question 2, the students were requested to address topics from the class; we intended thestudents to answer in accordance to

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Cheng Chen; Jose Valdovinos; Frank Sanchez; Nelly Avramova; Hector Santillano; Robert Hartsock

topics. Under the supervision, the students have contributed to two peer-reviewedconference publications to demonstrate the success of this project engaging undergraduatestudents into engineering research.AcknowledgementThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation under the award numberCMMI-1227962.The author would also like to acknowledge the support from the CaliforniaState University Wang Family Faculty Award and San Francisco State University PresidentialResearch Award. Any opinions, findings conclusions and recommendations expressed in thispaper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

reflected mainly by thenumber of power electronics companies who have participated in on-campus career fair at CalPoly and who have recruited electrical engineering (EE) students with specifically power Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 81electronics background. Such demand in turns spurred significant growth of interest among EEstudents at Cal Poly in power electronics as indicated by the steady increase in the number ofstudents enrolled in power electronic courses2.At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Scott Shepard

increase with thesquare of the distance. Thus, beyond some distance, radio will always “win.” This seemscounterintuitive: wouldn’t you always do better by focusing your light into a fiber whereit’s confined by total-internal-reflection? The mathematics of this counterintuitive resulttherefore whets the students’ appetite, in a modern context. Another motivating curiosityarises as follows. Since the formula for calculating radio losses naturally involves thegain of the transmitting and receiving antennas, how do we account for these at opticalfrequencies – when the transmitter is a laser or LED and the receiver is a photodetector(instead of a dipole or a horn or a dish or another standard radio antenna)?A Simple Model for the Effective Antenna

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Bijaya Shrestha

augmented/replaced by peer-instruction activity, wiki posts. The number of regular exams is reduced to 2 from 4 one-hour long exams. The final exam is kept as usual.Learning outcomesThe results of this methodology are measurable improvements in the quality ofinstructions. It provides a metric that measures or reflects the degree of active learningthat has taken place in the course. Along with this, many of the challenges in teachingservice course, or any course for that matter, share certain commonalities. For instance,the lack of student engagement is often a common problem in many courses, service ornot. So, the return of this methodology generalizes to other courses as well. Thismethodology is based on the conviction that students when trusted

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steve Menhart

ResultsThe average of the direct assessment of the four course learning objectives is 3.02, or a grade of“B”. This seems reasonable. The “F’s” obtained by some students warrant attention, inparticular the 3 “F’s”, for learning objectives 2 and 3. The fact that these students obtained thesegrades indicates a deficiency in their course knowledge. If a similar result were obtained infuture course offerings then corrective action should be undertaken. This could include course orprerequisite changes. The average of the indirect assessment of the course learning objectives(questions 11 through 14) is 3.45, or an equivalent grade of “A/B”. Clearly, these results do notfully reflect the reality of what students can actually do in the course. It appears

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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John Ciezki; Steve Watkins

ethics emphasize theresponsibility of engineers to consider the “safety, health, and welfare of the public” [2,3].Regulations, standards, laboratory practices, etc. reflect the importance of safety in engineeringwork. Also, the negative consequences associated with safety-related failures such as accidentsand product defects make such issues a priority for industry. Creating a safety culture isdifficult. It involves the performance of proper actions and the avoidance of improper actions.Any definition of safety must specify what is considered proper, what is considered improper,and what is an acceptable degree of risk.In engineering education, practical safety concerns are necessarily part of laboratory courses andsafety concepts are often

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Nathan Hutchins; Kaveh Ashenayi

ideas and findings inan engineering environment. This style of course has been shown to display “a definite andmeasurable increase in student awareness and understanding of the engineering profession2.” Thisone day a week class is set up in a laboratory structure where there is a lecture followed by someexperimentation with software or hardware.The evolution of this class is based on the changes to the curriculum at the University of Tulsa aswell as faculty and student feedbacks, and will continue to change to reflect changes in the subjectsand engineering tools used.Software Tools © American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceThe software tools that

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nesreen Alsbou; Floyd Day; Daniel Oluebubechukwu

MicroSD card and uses only 20mA, around half thepower of other GPS devices. The HC-SR04 ping distance sensor emits an ultrasound wave at 40000 Hzwhich travels through the air and if there is an object or obstacle in its path it will reflect back to the module.Considering the travel time and the speed of the sound, the module can be programmed to calculate thedistance.The transmitter has a frequency range of 433.9 MHz, and input voltage of 3-12V. The transmitter usesAmplitude-shift keying (ASK) to modulate signals. ASK uses variations in the amplitude of the carrier waveto represent digital data which is considered an inexpensive solution for modulation. The receiver has afrequency range of 433.9 MHz and an input voltage of 5V. DC motors are found

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yaser Abdulaziz Hadi

weights reflecting learningobjectives. The mapping of these course learning outcomes into programoutcomes is used to obtain the degree of achievement of each student in theprogram outcomes addressed by a specific course.Evaluation of other outcomes was better suited to ABET requirements. Facultymembers were not, however, able to infer much about how the program could beimproved based on measurements alone. The measurements produced suspiciousdata. The measurements showed that the work of students was nearly uniform inquality and faculty members knew from previous experience with these studentsthat the quality of their work was clearly distinguishable.Closing the loopClosing the loop included collecting and organizing all data gathered in support

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas Mulinazzi; Steven Schrock

oriented seek to earn good grades to reflect how hard they‟ve work. They study because they know it will get them something- aProceedings of the 2010Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2 scholarship, an above-average grade, or praise from their parents. Since grades are tied to their sense of achievement, students who are performance oriented tend to feel discouraged and anxious when they earn low grades. They tend to want to memorize and pattern-match to solve problems, rather than learn the underlying concepts and methods.” (2)“Most students have been performance

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

YoonJung Cho; Sohum Sohoni; Donald P. French

teaching skillsor teaching methods. Finally, more seasoned GTAs become „Junior Colleagues‟ who considerthemselves as fellow faculty and become concerned with the impact they may have on studentlearning and engagement. Most studies on teacher concerns have employed survey methods andmost surveys were developed based on Fuller‟s[22] model. Researchers often revised andextended survey items to reflect unique needs and characteristics of diverse teacher populationsand teaching contexts. Mok[25] proposed that teacher concerns are context-specific and thereforedifferent teacher populations in varying educational contexts may evidence different teachingconcerns, which should be considered to appropriately address teaching concerns within GTAdevelopment

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James A. Ejiwale

9Roebuck, Brock, & Douglas (2004) in their study titled “Using a Simulation to Explore theChallenges of Communicating” asked participants of the study to write collaboratively a two- tothree-page memo reflecting on the team’s communication process. Within the memo, the teamsdiscussed what they did well, what they could improve, and what they would do differently ifgiven another opportunity to work virtually. From this study, some of the lessons learned thatwere recorded are: • We learned that effective communication is the key for achieving team objectives and success. A common understanding is necessary. We learned that distance is not important as long as you have an effective way of communicating between virtual team members

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner; Ronald E. Nelson

lecture and lab concurrently. Only two students in the study had taken the lecture coursein a previous semester. Since the Electric Circuits Lab is designed to complement the Electric Circuits IIcoursework, a metric was developed to reflect the students’ performance in Electric Circuits II andconsisted of the course final grade. The distribution of grades in Electric Circuits II was: 11 A’s, 13 B’s,4 C’s, and 1 D.Analysis and ResultsThe students' performance on the electric circuits laboratory final was first evaluated with respect to theirgrades in the electric circuits lecture course in order to establish the relationship between the students'basic understanding of circuit theory and knowledge and their performance on the laboratory final

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebeca G. Book

will ultimately possible reflect on them onhow the program is perceived.If the university has a good reputation, then even if the representative is not an alum then just bybeing associated with the university there are some publicity perks.There is always the tax write offs for donated equipment and material, plus the publicity ofgiving back to the public, if the company participated in the meetings and working with theuniversity.5. Projects:Possible partnerships can be forged with projects. If a project is not needed in a timely manner,or if it is a matter that the industry does not have current labor means to investigate, then it is apossibility that the university could undertake the project. The university also has the means totry out

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Surendra Singh

completed and the ones currently on-going aredescribed in section III. In section IV, some of the comments from the interns and industrialpartners are provided. The comments reflect how the students and the host companies havebenefited from the internship program. The impact of the internship program on the department,the participating companies and the state of Oklahoma is outlined in section V. Finally, the mainconclusions of the work are provided in section VI.II. Internship Program:The agency that offers the internship program is Oklahoma Center for the Advancement ofScience and Technology (OCAST), an agency of the State of Oklahoma State. It administersseveral programs, one of which is the R &D Faculty and Student Internship Program (FSIP

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kyle D. Gilroy; Mohammad S. Islam; Robert A. Hughes; Svetlana Neretina; Brandon Lee; Ying Sun

. Introduction One of the foremost challenges facing next generation photovoltaics is to advancedesigns which deliver flexible, low-cost alternatives to the rigid-substrate silicon-basedarchitectures which presently dominate the marketplace1-4. The emergence of companies such asNanosolar5,6 and Konarka7, which offer high-volume printable solar cell fabrication processes,reflect both the allure and promise of fabricating low-cost, efficient solar cells usingconventional printing-press technologies. Inkjet printing offers a printing technology which ispromising but has, thus far, remained untapped in terms of use in commercial photovoltaictechnologies. While the inkjet process lends itself to the fabrication of organic solar cells 8, theformation

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

of a model of the well-known Fallingwater structure (physicallylocated in Bear Run, PA) are shown below in figures 5 – 8. As can be observed, themodels are embedded in a realistic landscape that reflects the architect’s emphasis on therelationship between structures and the natural surroundings. Figure 7 depicts an avatar(this author) navigating the stairs in the Fallingwater 3D model. The ability to movethroughout the structure and to interact with the structure enhances the immersiveexperience and has instructional and educational benefits. A user in Second Life also hasfull control of the camera view and the user can translate, pan, tilt, and zoom the viewindependent of the avatar position. This build also contains a few animated

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Aparicio Carranza

projects are the culmination of the Electrical Engineering Technology, which involvesthe students in professional level engineering design problems. The main areas completing asignificant project that reflects their Electrical Engineering Technology Program are: • Biomedical applications • Embedded Systems and Control Applications • Network Based Control Systems and Applications • VHDL, and Hardware-Software Co-Design • Alternative, Renewable Energy Sources, and Green Technology Electronics • Sensors and Instruments • Network Security Simulations and Design • A Real Time Wireless Data Acquisition System • Microprocessor and Applications • MATLAB Modeling of Control Systems • Remote Sensing • Digital

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

0 Before After Before After PHOTOGRAPHY FLUID MECHANICS Figure 3. Student survey data reflecting student confidence in their awareness of and familiarity with the methods of photography and of the physics of fluid flow.ConclusionsThis interdisciplinary course has introduced sophomore students from a variety of majors totechniques of science and art, and to the interactions of these disciplines. While the benefits ofbroader contextualization and liberal arts instruction for engineering students are often lauded,this course offers non-engineering students an entrée into the

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

it when the video cut back and forth between the entire experimental set-up to the details of handling/testing the sample. Many other student comments dealt with the production of the video, as opposed to the topical content. Monotone voices, cheesy music, and jerky editing should be avoided. Relative to content, it was expressed that explanations of equipment, instrumentation and software should be detailed, not generic.‖22In summary, this study found that the inclusion of short, topic-specific video programs in lecture-based teaching on the construction methods of ICF and SIPs increases learning to a statisticallysignificant degree, as reflected by student quiz scores. Further study on this topic