Merging Water Research, Analytical Chemistry, and Agile Management to Shape Prospective Professionals through the Project-Centred Collaborative Approach Focusing on Water Bodies rather than Water Samples

Autor: Nataša Gros
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Scheme (programming language)
students self-efficacy beliefs
projektno učenje
Process management
mnenja študentov o lastni učinkovitosti
Process (engineering)
Computer science
collaborative learning
Geography
Planning and Development
TJ807-830
magistrski študij
raziskave vod
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
Piperjev diagram
Renewable energy sources
Likert scale
sodelovalno učenje
udc:543.3
project-based learning
analytical chemistry
vodno telo
GE1-350
computer.programming_language
Agile management
Environmental effects of industries and plants
data treatment
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
waterbody
agilno vodenje
Collaborative learning
Analytical Chemistry (journal)
water research
vrednotenje rezultatov
Project-based learning
Environmental sciences
master-level education
agile management
analizna kemija
Piper diagram
Water quality
computer
Zdroj: Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 19, 10803, 2021.
Sustainability
Volume 13
Issue 19
Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 10803, p 10803 (2021)
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su131910803
Popis: Professionals of different disciplines, including chemists and chemical engineers, engage in water research, even though they might not have been extensively trained in it during their studies. We describe a project-centred master level subject “Water as a Hydrogeological, Ecological, and Analytical System”, which, by focussing on waterbodies instead of a particular aspect of water quality, merges total analytical process with water research and, by a considerate choice of chemical parameters, enables students to apply water-research-specific data-treatment techniques, including the Piper and Stiff diagram, to discuss water genesis, processes in water, and influences on waterbodies. Agile management, initiated in computer engineering in 2001, is believed to contribute to better products in a shorter time. We demonstrate how its incorporation into the organisational scheme helped students self-organise, handle their projects, and collaborate within and between groups. Student’s expressions confirm their overall satisfaction, motivation, and that the omission of the final classical exam had no adverse effects on the learning outcomes. Their consent with different benefits of the project-centred collaborative approach and their self-efficacy beliefs, respectively, expressed as mean values in a five-grade Likert scale ranged from 4.26 to 5.00 and from 4.32 to 5.00. Regarding the students’ time investment, the project-centred approach as the mean grade 3 confirmed is not recognised as an easier way. We provide partially self-calculating, self-notifying Excel spreadsheet tables to ease the implementation of water research data-treatment techniques, which help students collaborate and discuss their subject extensively.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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