TY - GEN
T1 - Engineering Students’ Misconceptions About Electronic Circuits
T2 - 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2023
AU - Gero, Aharon
AU - Zoabi, Wishah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - A misconception is a perception or opinion that does not match the accepted scientific view. While engineering students’ misconceptions have been systematically analyzed in the case of electrical circuits, this is not the case for electronic circuits, both analog and digital. However, the latter play a major role in the training of electrical engineers, and the research literature indicates the possible existence of misconceptions on this subject. In light of the above, the study aimed to identify, from the faculty members’ perspective, engineering students’ misconceptions about electronic circuits. Ten faculty members from four Israeli institutions of higher education took part in the study. Data were collected through interviews and document analysis. The research reveals that at the circuit level, students have misconceptions regarding the interrelations between the analog and digital viewpoints. Moreover, students hold misconceptions at a lower level of abstraction, namely, the device level. Some of the misconceptions at the higher level of abstraction (circuit level) may result from misconceptions at the lower level of abstraction (device level).
AB - A misconception is a perception or opinion that does not match the accepted scientific view. While engineering students’ misconceptions have been systematically analyzed in the case of electrical circuits, this is not the case for electronic circuits, both analog and digital. However, the latter play a major role in the training of electrical engineers, and the research literature indicates the possible existence of misconceptions on this subject. In light of the above, the study aimed to identify, from the faculty members’ perspective, engineering students’ misconceptions about electronic circuits. Ten faculty members from four Israeli institutions of higher education took part in the study. Data were collected through interviews and document analysis. The research reveals that at the circuit level, students have misconceptions regarding the interrelations between the analog and digital viewpoints. Moreover, students hold misconceptions at a lower level of abstraction, namely, the device level. Some of the misconceptions at the higher level of abstraction (circuit level) may result from misconceptions at the lower level of abstraction (device level).
KW - Electronic Circuits
KW - Misconceptions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185712944&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-53022-7_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-53022-7_32
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AN - SCOPUS:85185712944
SN - 9783031530210
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 317
EP - 322
BT - Towards a Hybrid, Flexible and Socially Engaged Higher Education - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning ICL 2023
A2 - Auer, M.E.
A2 - Cukierman, U.R.
A2 - Vendrell Vidal, Eduardo
A2 - Tovar Caro, Edmundo
Y2 - 26 September 2023 through 29 September 2023
ER -