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Sangam, Deepika; Jesiek, Brent K. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
Many university-level electrical engineering courses continue to use textbooks as curriculum scaffolds, prescribed texts, and/or reference volumes. Textbook reliance is even more pronounced in courses that teach foundational principles of the discipline, such as introductory circuit theory. This paper reports on the conceptual coverage of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Electronic Equipment
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Herman, G. L.; Zilles, C.; Loui, M. C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
The authors conducted a qualitative interview-based study to reveal students' misconceptions about state in sequential circuits. This paper documents 16 misconceptions of state, how students' conceptions of state shift and change, and students' methodological weaknesses. These misconceptions can be used to inform and direct instruction. This study…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Metric System, Misconceptions, Concept Formation