Study on relation between level of understanding and difficulty of problem by network visualization of questionnaire for active learning class in basic mathematics training for electrical engineering

• Main Authors: Kikuchi, Takashi, Yamashita, Satoshi, Suzuki, Michiharu, Ozawa, Kenji, Takahashi, Hirotaka, Kimura, Munehiro
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Correlation; Electrical engineering; Electromagnetics; Magnetics; Training; Visualization
• ISSN: 2474-2325
• DOI: 10.1109/SII.2017.8279285

We studied a relation between a level of understanding and difficulties of example and exercise with a network visualization. The relation was considered in a basic mathematics training for electrical engineering with an active learning class, "learning from each other" method. Questionnaire results were analyzed by a circle (percentage) graph and a categorized network graph. All the students with "easy" in "difficulty of example" thought that the exercises were also "easy". All the students with "difficult" in the "difficulty of example" thought that the exercises were "difficult". For this reason, it is found that the level of the understanding in the example affects one in the exercise. For the students with "understood well", the students thought that both the example and the exercise problems were "just right" or "easy". For this reason, the level of the understanding has the correlation with the difficulty of the problems in the active learning class in the basic mathematics training for the electrical engineering.