دورية أكاديمية

Links between Students' Goals and Their Choice of Educational Resources in Undergraduate Mathematics

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Links between Students' Goals and Their Choice of Educational Resources in Undergraduate Mathematics
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Anastasakis, Marinos, Robinson, Carol L., Lerman, Stephen
المصدر: Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications. Jun 2017 36(2):67-80.
الإتاحة: Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, UK. Tel: +44-1865-353907; Fax: +44-1865-353485; e-mail: jnls.cust.serv@oxfordjournals.org; Web site: http://teamat.oxfordjournals.org/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 14
تاريخ النشر: 2017
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Educational Resources, Mixed Methods Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Followup Studies, Engineering Education, Student Surveys
مصطلحات جغرافية: United Kingdom
DOI: 10.1093/teamat/hrx003
تدمد: 0268-3679
مستخلص: Currently, there is a dearth of studies exploring the kind of tools that undergraduates use when studying mathematics with previous approaches focusing mostly on digital or institutionally provided resources. In this article, we present and discuss the results from our investigations into the different types of tools that a cohort of second year engineering undergraduates uses. Our survey (N = 201) showed that although to some extent students use resources external to their university, their practices are dominated by tools that their institution provides to them. Analysis of six follow-up interviews revealed that when students use the most popular resources they aim mostly for exam-related goals. This suggested that students in our sample choose to use certain tools because these enable them to pursue their exam-driven goals.
Abstractor: As Provided
Number of References: 29
Entry Date: 2017
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1146826
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:0268-3679
DOI:10.1093/teamat/hrx003