Title :
Challenging students´ responsibility: An engagement methodology
Author :
Merino, Juan Carlos Soto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math., Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract :
In order to challenge the students´ responsibility, motivation and participation in mathematics courses this paper reports an action-based research about some ways to tackle such tasks for increasing their motivation and course engagement from a “teamwork” competence. Their comments and suggestions provide strategies to improve the results obtained.
Keywords :
education; educational courses; mathematical analysis; action based research; challenging students responsibility; course engagement; engagement methodology; mathematics courses; Calculus; Chemistry; Educational institutions; Electronics industry; Energy management; Industrial electronics; Informatics; Mathematics; Teamwork; Testing; Competences; Formative Assessment; PBL/EBL; Rubric; Student´s Opinion; Teamwork;
Conference_Titel :
Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6568-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6570-5
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492571
