Resumen de Influence of engineering instructors’ teaching and learning beliefs on pedagogies in engineering science courses
Maura Borrego, Jeffrey E. Froyd, Charles Henderson, Stephanie Cutler, Michael Prince
This study explored how academics’ beliefs about teaching and learning influenced their teaching in engineering science coursestypically taught in the second or third year of 4-year engineering undergraduate degrees. Data were collected via a national surveyof 166 U.S. statics instructors and interviews at two different institutions with 17 instructors of engineering science courses such asthermodynamics, circuits and statics. The study identified a number of common beliefs about how to best support student learningof these topics; each is discussed in relation to the literature about student development and learning. Specific recommendations aregiven for educational developers to encourage use of research-based instructional strategies in these courses.
