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标题：Assessment of Engineering Common Sense Among Newly Enrolled Students of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Programs
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作者：Jaafar Sahari ; Jaafar Sahari ; Norhamidi Muhamad 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2012
卷号：60
页码：489-492
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.412
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractEngineering common sense in this study refers to the student's level of knowledge of elementary engineering and their application. This characteristic is considered essential for facilitating students to be able to move on to the more involved topics in engineering. An assessment of common sense has been carried out among newly enrolled students in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Programs by using the marks obtained from several questions in a test. The results showed that the students who should have already mastered simple mathematical operations and hence having common sense, a significant proportion of them failed to apply it. Based on answers to three simple questions the assessment showed two extremes of common sense levels with an almost 50:50 distribution, one at the lowest and the other at the highest. Although the admission grade points for this cohort of students are considered high, it appears that there is a problem with common sense for half of them. Do these students think that once they enter tertiary level engineering studies, learning becomes so formal that there is no room for using common sense?.
关键词：engineering;common sense;newly enrolled students;assessment