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Investigating the Transferability of the Productive Beginnings of Engineering Judgment Framework from Interview Data to Group Discourse Data

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Abstract

Our research team has been working to understand how students develop and use mathematical models - the practice of engineering judgment - while completing open-ended modeling problems (OEMPs) during their undergraduate engineering science courses. We have used retrospective interviews, in which students review their work and discuss what they were thinking when they originally completed the problem, to develop a Productive Beginnings of Engineering Judgment (PBJ) Framework. This paper presents the transferability of our PBJ framework to a new data set - students' discourse as they complete an OEMP in a small group. Examining this discourse data confirms that the PBJ Framework applies to students' engineering judgment in-the-moment while working on an open-ended assignment. We also discuss three potential new codes for our PBJ Framework that need further exploring, and how students' written assignments do not fully capture the engineering judgment they used when completing the OEMP with their peers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665462440
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022 - Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: Oct 8 2022Oct 11 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
Volume2022-October
ISSN (Print)1539-4565

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUppsala
Period10/8/2210/11/22

Keywords

  • discourse analysis
  • engineering judgment
  • modeling
  • transferability
  • undergraduate

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