Motivating first-year university students by interdisciplinary study projects
| Autor: | Franziska D. Koch, Manfred Hampe, Rebecca Jo Pinkelman, Malte Awolin, Andrea Dirsch-Weigand |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Higher education
business.industry 05 social sciences General Engineering 050301 education Job design 050109 social psychology Student engagement Project-based learning Education Interdisciplinary teaching Engineering education Active learning ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology business 0503 education Self-determination theory |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Engineering Education. 42:17-31 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5898 0304-3797 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03043797.2016.1193126 |
| Popis: | In order to increase student commitment from the beginning of students’ university careers, the Technische Universitat Darmstadt has introduced interdisciplinary study projects involving first-year students from the engineering, natural, social and history, economics and/or human sciences departments. The didactic concept includes sophisticated task design, individual responsibility and a differentiated support system. Using a self-determination theory framework, this study examined the effects of the projects based on survey findings from two projects with more than 1000 students. The results showed that the projects were successful in fulfilling students’ basic psychological needs and in promoting students’ academic engagement. Basic psychological needs were found to be significant predictors of academic engagement. These findings suggest that interdisciplinary study projects can potentially contribute to improving higher education as they fulfil students’ basic psychological needs for competenc... |
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