A Cross-Cultural Comparison Study: The Effectiveness of Schema Training Modules Among Hispanic Students

Aidsa I. Santiago-Román; Arturo Ponce; Dazhi Yang; Alejandra Magana; Ruth A. Streveler; Ron Miller

doi:10.1109/FIE.2012.6462500

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Study: The Effectiveness of Schema Training Modules Among Hispanic Students

Aidsa I. Santiago-Román, Arturo Ponce, Dazhi Yang, Alejandra Magana, Ruth A. Streveler, Ron Miller

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Abstract

Previous studies indicated that misconceptions related to heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics, persist among engineering juniors and seniors even after they completed college-level courses in these subjects. Researchers have proposed an innovative instructional approach, the ontological schema training method, which helps students develop appropriate schemas or conceptual frameworks for learning difficult science concepts. Three online training modules were designed to help engineering students develop appropriate schemas in heat transfer, diffusion and microfluidics. The effectiveness of these modules was examined with two different student populations from two different universities (US and Hispanic). At each institution, participants were assigned randomly to a control or experimental group. The treatment for each group at both institutions was exactly the same. Preliminary results indicated a mixed effectiveness of the training modules among these populations.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	42nd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2012.6462500
State	Published - 3 Oct 2012

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cultural differences
ontological schema training
quantitative analysis

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