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Chapter 38

Handbook of Research on Engineering Education in a Global Context

Quantitative or qualitative indicators of quality of knowledge, abilities, skills of students.

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Identifying Students' Meta-Competences During Laboratory Work on a Unique Scientific Equipment

Andrey Anatiljevich Malakhov (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia), Elena V. Smirnova (Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia), Nikolay Vishnyakov (Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, Russia), Tatiana Kholomina (Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, Russia), and Peter Willmot (Loughborough University, UK)

Source Title: Handbook of Research on Engineering Education in a Global Context

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3395-5.ch038

Abstract

The chapter is devoted to the development of an analytical methodology of forming future engineers' meta-competences (interdisciplinary, meta-creative, and meta-cognitive) when he/she works on unique scientific equipment. The authors research a hypothesis about the possibility of estimating quality of education and identifying competences in engineering courses by measurement of students' activities as well as outcomes. An example is described of the criterion revealing during laboratory work with a scanning probe microscope “Nanoeducator.” The experiment is a part of a multifunctional scientific complex for the development and research of thin films. Results of the parameter evaluation are shown in graphs using MATLAB software. This chapter is a new direction towards discovering methods and algorithms to define and evaluate future engineers' meta-competence.

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