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| Abstract Title: | Students’ and Instructor’s Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab |
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| Abstract: | During the spring 2010 six students enrolled in an electronics advanced lab worked in pairs on ill-structured capstone projects. They designed electronic circuitry to automate experiments that were completed in a previous advanced physics lab. Some ill-structured features of these capstone projects included open-ended goals, limited guidance from the instructor and the possibility of multiple solution paths. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with both the students and the instructor of the class, before and after the students worked on these ill-structured capstone projects to gauge the participants' expectations of the projects before they began and their views about these projects after they were completed. We report on the pre- and post-project impressions of the students and instructors regarding this ill-structured learning experience and the insights it provides us for future implementations of such projects. This work is supported by NSF grant # DUE-0736897. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Nasser Juma Department of Physics, Kansas State University 116 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, KS 66502 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
1. Elizabeth Gire, Kansas State University 2. Kristan Corwin, Kansas State University 3. Brian Washburn, Kansas State University 4. N. Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University |
