Students Conceptual Understanding: Teaching Methods as a Hallmark

Secondary Students' Conceptual Understanding of Engineering as a Field

Researchers have long been interested in how to recruit and retain more and more diverse students into engineering programs. One consistent challenge in this research is understanding the impacts of interventions from the point of view of the student, and how their preconceptions may influence that effectiveness. This study investigated how secondary students understand the concept of engineeri...

Teaching Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics via a Hands-On Approach

A Qualitative Investigation Into Conceptual Understanding at Iranian Elementary Schools

This study attempts to root out some of the causes of absence of conceptual understanding in elementary level particularly in math subject and the factors that cause this deficiency. As a body of researchers, we use a quasi-form of methodology qualitatively designed by which we give a pre-test and post-test to our participants (randomly selected teachers and students), through some open-ended q...

First-year engineering students' environmental awareness and conceptual understanding with participatory game design as knowledge elicitation

The purpose of this paper was to investigate first-year undergraduate engineering students’ awareness and conceptual understanding of environmental issues and to examine how effective a participatory game design strategy was to elicit their understanding. Respondents (n=1,394) completed baseline environmental awareness surveys and 24 respondents participated in the game design process consistin...

the significance of conjunction as a cohesive device in teaching writing

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...