Interactive session: concept-based engineering education: designing instruction to facilitate student understanding of difficult concepts in science and engineering

This interactive session provides an active learning environment where participants will: 1) review and analyze the results of three difficult concepts studies in engineering and science, 2) engage in discipline-based discussions about the difficult concepts in their respective fields and, 3) begin to design instruction that fosters student conceptual understanding. The session expands upon the successful FIE 03 interactive session "why are some science and engineering concepts so difficult to learn? Identifying, assessing, and \´repairing\´ student misunderstanding of important concepts." However, participants do not need to have attended that session to benefit from this one.