Impact of running first year and final year electronics laboratory classes in parallel

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dc.contributor.authorScott, Jonathan B.
dc.contributor.authorHarlow, Ann
dc.contributor.authorPeter, Mira
dc.coverage.spatialConference held at Sydney, Australiaen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-12T01:01:05Z
dc.date.available2011-01-12T01:01:05Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractFirst electronics courses are considered difficult by students because of the circuit theory content, and retention of students in electronics is a problem worldwide. Retention is especially problematic at universities that offer a common first-year program since the students can change streams, for example from Electrical to Mechanical. At our university we ran the laboratory classes for a challenging first-year electronics course in the same room at the same time as a popular final-year mechatronics class that involved visible use of Lego Mindstorms, a model elevator, digital model trains and slot cars, etc. We report the outcomes of a quantitative and qualitative study of the impact of this organisation. One lab stream did not see the parallel classes and thus acted as a control group.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationScott, J.B., Harlow, A. & Peter, M. (2010). Impact of running first year and final year electronics laboratory classes in parallel. In Proceedings of the 2010 AaeE Conference: Past, Present, Future- the ‘keys’ to engineering education research and practice, 5-8 December 2010, Sydney Australia University of Technology, Sydney (pp. 403-408). Sydney, Australia: AaeE.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/4916
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAaeEen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfProceedings of the 2010 AaeE Conferenceen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.conferenceonline.com.au/files/admin/microsites/AaeE/compiled_Program.pdfen_NZ
dc.rightsThis article has been published in the procedings of of the 2010 AaeE Conference: Past, Present, Future- the ‘keys’ to engineering education research and practice, 5-8 December 2010, Sydney Australia University of Technology, Sydney.en_NZ
dc.subjectelectronics laboratoryen_NZ
dc.titleImpact of running first year and final year electronics laboratory classes in parallelen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contributionen_NZ
pubs.begin-page403en_NZ
pubs.elements-id20250
pubs.end-page408en_NZ
pubs.finish-date2010-12-08en_NZ
pubs.place-of-publicationAustraliaen_NZ
pubs.start-date2010-12-05en_NZ
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