• DocumentCode
    3733271
  • Title

    Effect of language difficulties on results of engineering students

  • Author

    John Steele;Pam Mort;Iain Skinner

  • Author_Institution
    UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    141
  • Lastpage
    144
  • Abstract
    Weak language ability has a deleterious effect on a student´s academic performance. This paper reports an attempt to assess how big this effect might be for engineering students. We found that there is a measurable effect - in this case, as big a difference as 17 marks out of 100 - that could be ascribed to language skills. However, it is not clear what fraction of this mark deficit is language and what fraction is due to related issues such as culture.
  • Keywords
    "Mathematics","Standards","Writing","Circuit theory","Engineering students","Australia"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TALE.2015.7386032
  • Filename
    7386032
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3733271