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Problem Solving When Using Student-Written YouTube Problems

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Tampa, Florida

Publication Date

June 15, 2019

Start Date

June 15, 2019

End Date

June 19, 2019

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Communication in Chemical Engineering

Tagged Division

Chemical Engineering

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--33193

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https://peer.asee.org/33193

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966

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Uchenna Asogwa University of Toledo Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-5938

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Uchenna Asogwa is a graduate student of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Benin, Nigeria in chemical engineering. His current research involves the reverse engineering online videos as well as rheology of complex fluids.

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Matthew W. Liberatore University of Toledo Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-7145

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Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. His current research involves the rheology of complex fluids as well as active learning, reverse engineering online videos, and interactive textbooks. His website is: http://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/chemical-engineering/liberatore/

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Amanda Portis Malefyt Trine University

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Amanda Malefyt is currently Chair and Associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering at Trine University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Trine (formerly Tri-State) University and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her research interests include engineering education and nucleic acid therapeutics.

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Timothy Ryan Duckett Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-8060-6149

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T. Ryan Duckett is a research associate with Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC., a program evaluation and grant writing company that specializes in STEM and early childhood education. He is a PhD student in the Research and Measurement department at the University of Toledo.

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Abstract

Problem solving is a signature skill of engineers. Here, problem solving is employed when students apply course concepts to reverse engineer YouTube videos and solve new student-written, homework-style problems (YouTube problems). Replacing textbook problems with YouTube problems, this research focuses on examining the rigor of YouTube problems as well as students’ problem-solving skills on textbook and YouTube problems. A quasi-experimental, treatment/control group design was employed, and data was collected and evaluated using multiple measurement instruments. First, rigor of homework problems was examined using the NASA Task Load Index. Also, problem solving was assessed using a previously-developed rubric called PROCESS: Problem definition, Representing the problem, Organizing the information, Calculations, Evaluating the solution, Solution communication, and Self-assessment. PROCESS was modified to independently measure completeness and accuracy of student responses, as well as identify errors committed in material and energy balances. In the treatment group, students were assigned ten textbook problems and nine YouTube problems. While the control group obtained higher PROCESS scores at the beginning of the study, both groups exhibited similar problem-solving skills near the end. Also, the rigor of student-written YouTube problems was similar to textbook problems related to the same course concepts.

Asogwa, U., & Liberatore, M. W., & Malefyt, A. P., & Duckett, T. R. (2019, June), Problem Solving When Using Student-Written YouTube Problems Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33193

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