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Assessment of Changes in Engineering Students' Problem-Solving Strategies in a Senior Level Review Class

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Student Division Technical 4: Student Experience & Competencies

Page Count

15

DOI

10.18260/1-2--40825

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https://peer.asee.org/40825

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464

Paper Authors

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Jacob Vaughn Texas Tech University

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Roman Taraban Texas Tech University

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Professor in Psychological Sciences

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Sheima Khatib Texas Tech University

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Abstract

Engineering students are trained to solve a multitude of problems ranging from those that are well-defined to those that require intuition and creativity. Although engineering educators have researched strategies that students utilize when problem solving, including metacognition, there is essentially no research on motivations for why engineering students change their strategies over time. The goal of this study was to gain information on how students change their strategies after being prompted to exercise metacognitive practices. The participants were chemical engineering students enrolled in a 3-hour senior level review course designed to prepare them to take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam. Several measures were collected through responses on a weekly survey for which students received a small homework credit. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were applied to the data. The findings have implications pertinent to educators about how students adapt problem-solving strategies over time and what steps students incorporate when implementing these changes.

Vaughn, J., & Taraban, R., & Khatib, S. (2022, August), Assessment of Changes in Engineering Students' Problem-Solving Strategies in a Senior Level Review Class Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40825

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