Engineering physics exam questions demand more approach selection or synthesis while Technology questions often prescribe a specific approach¶

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q2 i? Physics exam questions from Engineering programs mostly required students to choose from or synthesize a range of approaches, whereas Technology program questions often required use of a specific approach. → Zakani 2019

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Zakani 2019¶

Zakani, S., Kaupp, J., Turner, R. D., & Frank, B. (2019). Analyzing implicit science and math outcomes in engineering and technology programs. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2019.1.7994

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Instructor survey scoring of scaffolding on physics exam questions from Engineering Technology 3 and 6 and Engineering 2 and 5, covering 10 university and 8 college questions. The article reports that "exam questions from Engineering Technology programs were often found to require higher scaffolding" and notes the conclusions drawn from this very small sample are very weak.

"Questions from Engineering programs mostly required the students to choose from or synthetize a range of approaches while questions from Technology programs often required the students to use a specific approach."

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Related Claims¶

• Technology programs examine discipline-related physics topics at higher cognitive levels within a disciplinary context — related
• Collected exam questions required no cognitive processes above apply and no originality in analysis or high-level interdependence — related
• No significant differences between Engineering and Technology exam questions in novelty and level of communication — related
• Variation among Engineering programs is as large as variation between Engineering and Technology programs — related