How students learn engineering: You tell me.

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How students learn engineering You tell me.

• Marilla Svinicki

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Using the learning principles identified in
earlier sessions, you will analyze engineering
education variables that might impact how those
principles are similar or different for
engineering students. Using the individual
difference principles identified in earlier
sessions, you will analyze how those individual
difference variables might be expressed in
engineering students.
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Divide into 7 approximately equal groups. For the
next 15 minutes discuss what there is about that
variable that might influence student learning
positively or negatively

• Engineering content
• The concepts
• The thinking processes

• Engineering students
• 3. Prior knowledge
• 4. Motivation/values
• 5. Self-regulation skills
• Developmental level
• Life circumstances

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What is there about the content in engineering
that might influence the learning experience of
students? Qualities of the content Qualities of
the cognitive processes needed
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What is there about engineering students that
might influence their learning experiences? Prior
knowledge Affective states Self-regulations
strategies Developmental level Life circumstances