Promoting depth of knowledge through a new quiz format to improve problem solving abilities

Author

Yokomoto, C.F.

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

A novel quiz format is described which is designed to help engineering students improve: (1) problem solving abilities, (2) deep learning, and (3) personal knowledge base. The new quiz format breaks the traditional quiz into two parts, where students are asked to write words that express the limits of their knowledge of the announced quiz topic followed by a short problem solving quiz. The aim of the student is to determine the relationship between the demonstrated knowledge base and the quality of the solution of the quiz problem. An extended aim is to develop a model that describes the relationships between the knowledge base and problem solving success in order to develop training interventions

Keywords

engineering education; human factors; problem solving; teaching; deep learning; depth of knowledge; engineering students; personal knowledge base; problem solving abilities; problem solving success; quiz format; quiz topic; short problem solving quiz; training interventions; Automatic testing; Electrical engineering; Electronic equipment testing; JFET circuits; Knowledge engineering; Problem-solving; Resistors; Statistical analysis; Tree data structures; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6424-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2000.897707

Filename

897707