How Team-Based Learning and Lecture Video Acceleration Affect The

How Team-Based Learning and Lecture Video Acceleration Affect The

The efficient classroom: How team-based learning and lecture video acceleration affect the learning efficiency and effectiveness of a first-year engineering course by Benjamin Paul Jacobson A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Major: Industrial Engineering Program of Study Committee: Michael Dorneich, Major Professor Stephen Gilbert Luke LeFebvre Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2015 Copyright © Benjamin Paul Jacobson, 2015. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................ ii LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................ v LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................ vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................................................................... viii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................... ix CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 1 Focus Area .................................................................................................................................. 1 Thesis Overview ......................................................................................................................... 3 Benefit ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Thesis Structure .......................................................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW ....................................................................................... 6 Variability and Retention of the First-Year Engineering Student .............................................. 6 Team-Based Learning & Flipped Classrooms ............................................................................ 7 Video-Speed Experiment .......................................................................................................... 11 Audio-Speed & Speed-Reading Capability .......................................................................... 11 Video-Speed .......................................................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER III: TRANSFORMATION TO TBL ......................................................................... 19 Methods..................................................................................................................................... 19 Research Objective ............................................................................................................... 19 Course Overview .................................................................................................................. 19 Hypotheses ............................................................................................................................ 20 Independent Variables .......................................................................................................... 20 Dependent Variables ............................................................................................................. 21 Participants ............................................................................................................................ 23 Procedure .............................................................................................................................. 23 Class Environment ................................................................................................................ 25 Data Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 27 Limitations and Assumptions ............................................................................................... 28 Results ....................................................................................................................................... 29 Performance .......................................................................................................................... 29 Preference ............................................................................................................................. 31 Discussion ................................................................................................................................. 34 iii CHAPTER IV: VIDEO-SPEED PREFERENCE ......................................................................... 38 Methods..................................................................................................................................... 38 Overview ............................................................................................................................... 38 IE 148 Weekly Survey .......................................................................................................... 38 General University Population Survey ................................................................................. 45 Discussion ................................................................................................................................. 50 CHAPTER V: VIDEO-SPEED EXPERIMENT .......................................................................... 52 Methods..................................................................................................................................... 52 Research Objective ............................................................................................................... 52 Hypotheses ............................................................................................................................ 52 Participants ............................................................................................................................ 53 Tasks ..................................................................................................................................... 53 Independent Variables .......................................................................................................... 55 Dependent Variables ............................................................................................................. 56 Experimental Design ............................................................................................................. 60 Procedure .............................................................................................................................. 62 Testing Environment ............................................................................................................. 63 Data Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 64 Limitations and Assumptions ............................................................................................... 65 Results ....................................................................................................................................... 66 Comprehension ..................................................................................................................... 66 Video-Speed Acceleration .................................................................................................... 68 Practice Effect ....................................................................................................................... 70 Learning Efficiency .............................................................................................................. 72 Cognitive Workload .............................................................................................................. 73 Video-Speed Preference........................................................................................................ 75 Perceived Practice Effect ...................................................................................................... 77 Other Variables ..................................................................................................................... 78 Discussion ................................................................................................................................. 79 Hypothesis #1........................................................................................................................ 79 Hypothesis #2........................................................................................................................ 80 Other Effects ......................................................................................................................... 80 CHAPTER VI: CONCLUSION ................................................................................................... 83 Summary of Findings ................................................................................................................ 83 Implications............................................................................................................................... 84 Future Work

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