Using e-tutor program and pre-lab assessment task to enhance laboratory experience of civil engineering students

Hui Jiao, Fidelis Mashiri, Tongming Zhou

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[Before attending a lab session, students are usually required to be familiarized with laboratory tasks through pre-lab preparation. While it was found pre-lab preparation was an effective way to promote student learning, the benefits of running pre-lab preparation were not fully investigated. Traditional lab description sheets may provide general information on safety operation procedures and pre-lab questions. However, if these pre-lab questions were not assessed, they could easily be ignored by students. In this research, pre-lab problems were designed to give unique parameters to each student. Students were required to solve the problems and obtain theoretical values which were verified later in a practical lab session. To minimize the marking load, the pre-lab submissions were automatically marked using the e-tutor program. Results showed that the pre-lab preparation program was successful in enhancing students’ learning interests, in preventing plagiarism, and in increasing the efficiency of labs with the duration of a lab session being significantly reduced.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education: Developing Engineers for Social Justice: Community Involvement, Ethics & Sustainability: 5-7 December 2011, Fremantle, Western Australia
    PublisherEngineers Australia
    Pages633-638
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)9780858259980
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventAustralasian Association for Engineering Education. Conference -
    Duration: 5 Dec 2011 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceAustralasian Association for Engineering Education. Conference
    Period5/12/11 → …

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