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This paper describes an intervention to enhance students’ learning through involving students in brainstorming activities with regard to sustainability concepts and their implications in transportation engineering. The paper discusses the process of incorporating the intervention into a transportation course as well as the impact of this intervention on students’ learning outcomes. To evaluate and compare students’ learning as a result of the intervention, the Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education (LITEE) survey instrument (http://www.litee.org/site) was used. The survey instrument includes five constructs to measure five different aspects of students’ learning in the undergraduate transportation engineering: higher-order cognitive skills, self-efficacy, ease of learning subject matter, teamwork, and communication skills. The survey on pre-assessment and post-assessment of student learning outcomes was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the intervention on enhancing students’ learning outcomes. The results show that the implementation of the intervention significantly improves higher order cognitive domain of learning, self-efficacy, team work, and communication skills. Involving students in brainstorming activities related to sustainability concepts and their implications in transportation could be used as an effective teaching and learning strategy by educators to facilitate students’ learning.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABG20 Transportation Education and Training.

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15-1859

English

25p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Cognition; Education; Evaluation and assessment; Learning; Problem solving; Sustainable development; Transportation engineering

Project based education

Education and Training; Environment; Transportation (General); I15: Environment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-1859

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 12:40PM