A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Effect of Computer Simulation and Animation(CSA)on Student Learning in Kinematics in a Foundational Undergraduate Engineering Course
A quasi-experimental quantitative study was performed to investigate the effect of computer simulation and animation(CSA)on student learning in kinematics in a foundational engineering dynamics course.The study involved 149 student participants in two recent semesters: 67 in a comparison semester and 82 in an intervention semester.This short paper describes two CSA modules we developed for students to learn curvilinear motion and relative motion,two critical topics in kinematics.The pretest-posttest results show that the students in the intervention semester achieved high learning gains of 62%and 59%,respectively,from two CSA modules.These two percentages represent,respectively,a 23%and 46%increase in learning gains as compared to those in the comparison semester.
computer simulation and animation (CSA) quasi-experimental study student learning kinematics
Ning FANG Yongqing GUO
Department of Engineering Education,Utah State University,U.S.A.
国内会议
The 20th Global Chinese Conference on Computer in Education ( 第20届全球华人计算机教育应用大会)(GCCCE2016)
香港
英文
417-420
2016-05-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）