Fundamental Research in Engineering Education. Identifying and Repairing Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Science: Concept Inventories and Schema Training Studies

This paper summarizes progress on two related lines of chemical engineering education research: 1) identifying persistent student misconceptions in thermal and transport science (fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics); and, 2) developing a method to help students repair these misconcept...

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Published in:Chemical engineering education 2011, Vol.45 (3), p.203
Main Authors: Miller, Ronald L, Streveler, Ruth A, Yang, Dazhi, Roman, Aidsa I. Santiago
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical Engineering
College Students
Educational Research
Engineering Education
Heat
Measures (Individuals)
Mechanics (Physics)
Misconceptions
Schemata (Cognition)
Teaching Methods
Thermodynamics
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Summary:This paper summarizes progress on two related lines of chemical engineering education research: 1) identifying persistent student misconceptions in thermal and transport science (fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics); and, 2) developing a method to help students repair these misconceptions. Progress on developing the Thermal and Transport Concept Inventory is discussed and preliminary results from an experiment to study the effect of schema training on students' understanding of emergent processes is presented.
ISSN:0009-2479