1. Measuring Mathematical Competences of Engineering Students at the Beginning of Their Studies
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Malte Lehmann, Christoph Duchhardt, Reinhold Nickolaus, Bettina Rösken-Winter, Aiso Heinze, and Irene Neumann
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Rasch model ,Higher education ,business.industry ,Protocol analysis ,Education ,Engineering studies ,Engineering education ,Item response theory ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Mathematics education ,business ,Psychology ,Competence (human resources) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
This article reports about our efforts to determine engineering students' competence in mathematics. Our research is embedded in a larger project, KoM@ING–Modeling and developing competence: Integrated IRT based and qualitative studies with a focus on mathematics and its usage in engineering studies, within the program Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHS). KoKoHS provides the umbrella organization of several research projects addressing the modeling and measuring of competences at the college level. KoM@ING aims to model the role of engineering students' mathematical competences for their studies from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective.Here, we report the development of a large-scale instrument assessing engineering freshmen's competence in mathematics by applying Rasch analysis to determine measures for item difficulties and student abilities. Several analyses were performed to provide insights into the measures' reliability and validity. In particular, to exami...
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- 2015