Research-Focused Undergraduate Laboratory Exercises in Biomechanics

Author(s):  
Jenni M. Buckley ◽  
Jill S. Higginson ◽  
Amy C. Bucha ◽  
Ashu Khandha ◽  
Dawn Elliott ◽  
...  

Undergraduate laboratory exercises in core engineering courses do not always subscribe to the Problem Based Learning approaches advocated by the educational community [1–3]. Common shortcomings include “cookie cutter” labs where students are not engaged in experimental design as well as a general detachment from the “real world” application of the laboratory exercise. Soft skills like proper documentation during experiments as well as scientific writing may also be overlooked in lab curricula. This is unfortunate, as the undergraduate laboratory experience is a perfect opportunity to develop essential research skills as well as inspire and excite students about their chosen field.

CourseSource ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha J. Ganser ◽  
Justin K. Hines ◽  
Michael W. Butler

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Dyjak Leblanc ◽  
Caitlin Femac ◽  
Craig N. Shealy ◽  
Renee Staton ◽  
Lee G. Sternberger

Author(s):  
Hilman Syarif

Introduction: Student Centered Learning (SCL) is an effective method to develop student's soft skills and hard skills which are very important to support their successful carrier later. This research was conducted to identify the differences of developed soft skills between students who learn with PBL method and lecturing method. Methods: Descriptive comparative method was used in this study. The samples consisted of 15 students who learned with PBL method and 15 students who learned with lecturing method. The sample for this research was selected by random sampling method. Results: The result showed that the average of student's soft skills score in PBL method was 122.63, while student's soft skills score in lecturing method was 116.27. Discussion & Conclusion: There was significant difference of student's soft skills in PBL method and lecturing method (p value = 0.038; α = 0.05). This study recommends nursing program management, faculty of medicine at the University of Syiah Kuala keeps PBL method running and develops other methods which facilitate hard skills and soft skills are development. Keywords: nursing students, soft skill, PBL


2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janel H. Rogers ◽  
Heather M. Ooak ◽  
Ronald A. Moorre ◽  
M. G. Averett ◽  
Jeffrey G. Morrison

Author(s):  
Issaura Sherly Pamela ◽  
Muhammad Rusdi ◽  
Asrial Asrial

Innovation is needed in learning to make meaningful learning, so the student constructs their ownknowledge from the learning experience of learning process. One of the innovations is to integrate Problem Based Learning model. Problem Based Learning involves students to be active in every problem. Eleven problems type in Problem Based Learning that have different solving steps, due to every student different metacognition character potential and can change by given treatment. This research is a pre-experimental design: the pretest-posttest control and experimental group design with embedded experimental design. The metacognition character data were analyzed qualitaively, whereas the average grade data were analyzed quantitatively. The analysis of metacognition character shows the different metacognition characters and on learning process there is improvement of student achievement from 14% to 84.4%.


Author(s):  
Dilpreet Singh Brar ◽  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Pallavi ◽  
Usha Mittal ◽  
Pooja Rana

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document