Education technology -Engineering training
B. Motiei
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Teaching basic courses is of utmost importance in architecture and the proper teaching of these courses would guide architecture novices toward better learning and creative designing in architectural design courses. An inconsistency is observable among professors teaching the ...
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Background and Objectives: Teaching basic courses is of utmost importance in architecture and the proper teaching of these courses would guide architecture novices toward better learning and creative designing in architectural design courses. An inconsistency is observable among professors teaching the basic skills of architecture due to the different teaching methods and the changes made in the architecture bachelor's degree syllabus as well as the basic course differentiation. Considering the significance of the drawing course in the architectural engineering, it is required to investigate the effect of blended and differentiated instructions on the quality of teaching this topic. Motivation is one of the common concepts in educational issues. When problems, such as academic failure, occur in the educational system, the learner's motivation is mentioned as one of the major causes. The main objective of this research was to investigate the effect of blended education and differentiated instruction on teaching drawing skills and improving architecture students' academic motivation. The questions of the present research included: which of the blended education and differentiated instructions has more effect on improving the drawing skills of architecture students? And which of these two instructions has a greater effect on improving the architecture students' academic motivation?Methods: This study was an applied descriptive-analytical and causal-comparative research. The statistical population included two 30-student groups of architectural engineering students of the Islamic Azad University of Urmia. A 30-student group was selected for blended instruction and another 30-student group was selected for differentiated instruction at the Islamic Azad University of Urmia in the first half of the academic year 2022. In the introductory course of architectural design (1), the architectural drawing course was presented in the format of Atelier A for the blended instruction group and it was separately presented in the format of Atelier B for the differentiated instruction group. At the end of the training, drawing tests were taken from the students regarding four main topics of three-view drawing, plan, section, and façade. At the end of the course, Wallerand's academic motivation questionnaire was distributed among the students. In this research, the t-test was used for evaluating the independent groups. Further, the mean values were considered for data analysis.Findings: According to the obtained research data, it was obvious that blended instruction was more effective in teaching all four subjects of the drawing course and students obtained higher scores. The consistency of the results in the two sections of the research, including the drawing test and the academic motivation questionnaire, confirmed the better performance of blended education in the course of drawing. The higher scores of students in the case of three-view drawing and, then, façade, plan, and section in the blended teaching method confirmed the better performance of this instruction. The high academic motivation in the blended instruction and students' further interaction with each other was more effective in students' learning and made them perform better.Conclusion: The results revealed that the blended instruction was more effective in teaching the three-view drawing, plan, section, and façade, and the scores of students who participated in the blended training atelier were higher in a specific exercise in comparison to those of the differentiated training atelier, and it can be concluded that blended instruction has a significantly greater average than differentiated instruction in all four exercises. Moreover, blended instruction improves the students' internal and external motivation.
Education technology -Engineering training
S. Hadavand; S. YavarZadeh; A. JavanBakhsh; A. Najm
Abstract
In this research, descriptive and surveying method is used to evaluate the quality of engineering training programs. The statistical society of the research consists of 130 engineers of AzarAb Company covered by training programs in 2012. Since the statistical society has a low volume, the whole society ...
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In this research, descriptive and surveying method is used to evaluate the quality of engineering training programs. The statistical society of the research consists of 130 engineers of AzarAb Company covered by training programs in 2012. Since the statistical society has a low volume, the whole society is considered as a statistical sample. Data was collected using Servqual standard questionnaire. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire and the obtained coefficient was estimated at 91%. To determine the validity of the questionnaire, the comments of several experts from industry and university professors were used and their recommendations and propose amendments were applied to the questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted by dual sample t test to identify the difference of each of the dimensions of the model. The obtained results show that engineers are not satisfied with the quality of trainings and that the provided trainings have not met their expectations.
Education technology -Engineering training
A Aref; A. Motie; A. Daman Khorshid
Volume 7, Issue 1 , January 2014, , Pages 32-40
Abstract
Paying attention to the programs and education methods shows that make assistant educational tools is one of the main base in extensional education in recently two decades. one of the assistant educational tools in Power Engineering is use soft ware study Power Systems consist Digital Simulator for Electrical ...
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Paying attention to the programs and education methods shows that make assistant educational tools is one of the main base in extensional education in recently two decades. one of the assistant educational tools in Power Engineering is use soft ware study Power Systems consist Digital Simulator for Electrical Network (DIgSILENT)، Power System Computer Aided Design (PSCAD/EMTDC) and SIMULINK/ MATLAB that use of them assisted to understand main power engineering discussions and supply probability education group students in the classroom. This paper refers to the some special capabilities and applications from one of the soft ware in the study and education different discussions Power Engineering. In this research whit presentation and education examples from different Power Engineering discussions by this soft ware have been showen influence them such as assistant educational tools in field. The results showed that use from these soft ware makes since transfer useful and deep to the students.
Education technology -Engineering training
H. Motahhari Nejad; N.G. Ghourchian; P. Jafari; M. Yaghoubi
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In developing the models and approaches for engineering education, in addition to having technical knowledge (engineering science) there is a specific focus on skills and attitudes (engineering practice). Hence, the determination of engineering education objectives with regard to the required knowledge, ...
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In developing the models and approaches for engineering education, in addition to having technical knowledge (engineering science) there is a specific focus on skills and attitudes (engineering practice). Hence, the determination of engineering education objectives with regard to the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes for engineers is the basis of many studies in the present century. The aim of this paper is to determine the objectives of engineering education based on content analysis of present documents. The society in this research includes present documents in the context of engineering education objectives in which seven documents as purposeful samples and desirable cases were selected for analysis. The instruments for data collection were a checklist and researcher-made forms. The data was analyzed and interpreted by open coding and axial coding. Based on the performed content analysis, 24 objectives were determined for engineering education, which were classified into five categories. Then it was determined how the established objectives were supported by present documents. At last, based on the performed research in the field, the relation between assumed objectives with present documents was determined.
Education technology -Engineering training
M. Mahmoudi Sahebi; S. Nasri; H. Gholinia
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Continuous professors' teaching quality evaluation has a great effect on their teaching quality progress. How to do an evaluation and criteria that are used to it, are really important. In this research, common methods for evaluating teaching quality are studied and new criteria were suggested. This ...
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Continuous professors' teaching quality evaluation has a great effect on their teaching quality progress. How to do an evaluation and criteria that are used to it, are really important. In this research, common methods for evaluating teaching quality are studied and new criteria were suggested. This research tries to select the statistical population among the engineering field and uses the students and professors’ idea to recognize the teaching evaluation criteria in theoretical lessons as well as project, laboratory and workshop lesson and come to new conclusions. In introducing the new criteria indexes including lessons plan, professional behavior, test questions, social behavior, case studies of the postgraduate and professors' performances in workshop and laboratory lessons and students' projects and thesis are targeted. For identifying criteria of professors' teaching performance evaluation, the research was a kind of descriptive-survey one. In this research, a statistic population including 340 students and 106 professors were selected as a sample group and their opinions about the criteria for evaluating the professors' teaching quality were collected. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 16.0 software. The professors and students’ opinions were processed by using this software. The results indicate that for professors, criteria for lesson plan, scheduling in class session by following the book topics and for students, providing booklet, answering questions, using suitable examples, professor skill in experimental lesson, participation and supervision of projects and student’s thesis are the most important criteria for evaluating professors' teaching quality.
