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Direct linkC. M. Rathnayaka; J. Ganapathi; S. Kickbusch; L. Dawes; R. Brown – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Laboratory learning forms a significant and integral part of engineering education, wherein students develop technical, collaborative, enquiry, and observation skills that go beyond theoretical studies. Engineering is inherently a practice-based profession, and consequently, laboratory work has been inseparable for engineering curricula. However,…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Laboratories, Electronic Learning, Engineering Education
Download full textGoovaerts, Leen; De Cock, Mieke; Struyven, Katrien; Dehaene, Wim – European Journal of STEM Education, 2019
High level, abstract engineering thinking and design is a subject that is hardly addressed in current curricula for secondary education. This is contradictory to the increasing need for more in depth STEM education in secondary schools dictated by the evolution of our society towards an ever more STEM based information society. In this paper an…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Design, Thinking Skills, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedStylianidou, Fani; Boohan, Richard – Research in Science Education, 1998
Six 12-year-old students were followed during an eight-month course using "Energy and Change" curricular materials, which introduce ideas related to the Second Law of Thermodynamics through an abstract picture language. Concludes that students had higher levels of generalization in their explanations of physical, chemical, and biological…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change, Concept Formation, Energy
