공학계열 대학 신입생의 물리 개념 이해수준의 탐색

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This study aimed to understand engineering students’ low academic competency on learning physics. The total number of 1979 engineering freshman students, who entered at university from 2013 to 2015, participated in this study. We developed and conducted diagnostic assessment exam. The exam involved physics concepts what students have learned from regular curriculum until their high school. We assumed that the students who get low achievement of this diagnostic assessment will have difficulty in general physics courses. The results showed that engineering students have relatively low understanding of physics concepts such as ‘centripetal force’, ‘torque’, ‘impulse’, ‘kinetic energy’, ‘Newton's first law of motion’, ‘solenoid’, ‘Faraday’s law’, ‘electric field’, ‘electric force’, ‘magnetic field created by current’, ‘Einstein’s work’, ‘radiation’, and ‘temperature’. We also compared means between groups of major and gender. Mechanical engineering major and electronic electrics engineering major students showed the highest achievement. The next high achievement groups were chemistry and new material engineering major, computer engineering major, and architecture engineering major. The students of social system engineering major showed the lowest achievement for last three years between six majors. We also found that male students scored higher than female student in physics concept exam in this study. Based on these results, we suggested that curriculum of engineering college should reformed and redesigned by considering of level based instruction in order to support engineering students learning difficulties in general physics courses.

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