Student-made glossary assignment for MATLAB syntax¶

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Description¶

A homework intervention in which students complete a five-column glossary form: "syntax, overview of the syntax, student developed test case(s) based on instructor guidelines, hand computations to predict results of test cases, and MATLAB results". Column complexity follows a hierarchical analysis of intellectual skills (discrimination, concepts, rules), letting students build a schema and gain a sense of accomplishment on smaller parts of the learning task before solving application problems.

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Requirements¶

• Students complete the glossary before working on application problems, with items tied to immediate assignments

Constraints¶

• Implemented only in the last quarter of the semester, late relative to the pre-motivational survey

Target Learners¶

• first-year engineering students

Target Learning Goals¶

• learning and transferring MATLAB syntax to engineering problem-solving

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• Submission

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Key Sources¶

• David Wenhao Huang, Hans Aagard, Heidi Diefes-Dux. (2004). Impact of Cognitive-based Instructional Intervention on Learning Motivation: The Implementation of Student-made Glossary in a Programming-oriented Engineering Problem-solving Course and Its Impact on Learning Motivation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED485015