Title
Improvement in Laboratory Skills and Knowledge Achieved Through Individual Student Lab Participation
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2009
Department
Engineering & Computing Sciences
Abstract
In a fundamental electrical engineering laboratory course, the performance of students in a solo laboratory team organization was contrasted with the performance of students utilizing a multiple student lab team model. The students' performance on the laboratory final practicum exam provided an indicator of their individually acquired knowledge and skills. The student's participation individually in lab resulted in marked improvement in the their ability to learn rudimentary laboratory skills and knowledge and their ability to apply them in basic circuits analysis applications. Several other factors were investigated that could have contributed to this increase in student performance on the final laboratory practicum exam; however, the only factor that significantly and independently contributed to the students' laboratory skills and knowledge base proved to be student level of participation in the laboratory exercises. The …
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
Recommended Citation
Greco, E. C. & Reasoner, J. D. (2009). Improvement in Laboratory Skills and Knowledge Achieved Through Individual Student Lab Participation. ASEE Midwest Conference Proceedings, 2009.