IDENTIFYING AND REPAIRING STUDENT MISCONCEPTIONS IN THERMAL AND TRANSPORT SCIENCE: Concept Inventories and Schema Training Studies

摘要

Engineers need to possess a deep understanding of the fundamental concepts of their field. Even advanced engineering students, however, may hold misconceptions that are "robust" or resistant to instruction. This paper describes an integration of two ongoing research lines combining identification of students' misconceptions of difficult engineering concepts with efforts to repair some particularly robust misconceptions.