• DocumentCode
    2061775
  • Title

    A study of the effect of graded homework in a preparatory math course for electrical engineers

  • Author

    Trussell, H.J. ; Dietz, E.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    13-16 Oct. 2002
  • Firstpage
    135
  • Lastpage
    139
  • Abstract
    Large engineering classes require many person-hours to grade homework assignments. An experiment was conducted to try to determine if this effort is beneficial to the students as measured by their test performance. Two sections of the same course were taught by the same instructor. One section was assigned homework that was graded; the other was assigned the same homework but it was not graded. The experiment was repeated in a second semester. The results of the two semesters differ in the significance of the homework assignment. The reasons for this difference are discussed.
  • Keywords
    educational courses; electrical engineering education; mathematics; electrical engineers; engineering classes; graded homework; preparatory math course; Circuits; Conducting materials; Education; History; Home computing; Mathematics; Signal design; Springs; Statistics; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 2002 and the 2nd Signal Processing Education Workshop. Proceedings of 2002 IEEE 10th
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8116-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DSPWS.2002.1231091
  • Filename
    1231091