Description
The struggle faced by students with knowledge retention is very well documented in literature, with much research having been carried out across different contexts to understand what practices influence it, with accents placed upon spacing in learning (Donovan & Radosevich, 1999).At the University of Twente in the Netherlands, service courses in mathematics are offered by the Department of Applied Mathematics to engineering programmes. The goal of these courses is to teach students mathematical skills necessary for engineering courses of their chosen topic of study. However, much of the knowledge acquired during these service courses seems to be forgotten by students by the time this knowledge becomes necessary. Such is, for example, the case with Calculus 1, the topics of which students often say to not remember or to never have seen before by the time they must recall and apply the relative skills within an applied engineering course.
This research aims to inquire about where the issue of remembering and applying these skills lies and what its exact nature is. In particular, the goal of this research is to determine whether it is knowledge retention or rather transfer that poses an issue for students in the programmes of Advanced Technology and Electrical Engineering.
| Period | 11 Jun 2025 |
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| Event title | PhD Research Across ConTinents in Engineering and Science Education, PRACtESE 2025 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | OnlineShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |