An Assessment of How Engineering Students Partially Understand Derivatives through Six Cognitive Tasks

 

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Autoren: Sotomayor Cano , Sugey, López Martínez , Rocío, Chaparro Sánchez, Ricardo
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2025
Beschreibung:This article reports on the findings attained from a questionnaire to assess learning difficulties encountered by engineering students regarding concepts about derivatives. The questionnaire was distributed to eleven students enrolled in the industrial, civil, and automation engineering programs. Analysis of the responses utilized theoretical and methodological concepts from the Ontosemiotic Approach (OSA) to Mathematical Knowledge and Instruction. Based on the results, 55% of students demonstrated  comprehension of derivatives as a rate of change and preferred the algebraic representation. Final recommendations are provided regarding tasks that should be integrated into calculus courses to strengthen the training of engineering students. 
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Español
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Online Zugang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reducacion/article/view/542
Stichwort:Derivatives
Engineering Education
Calculus
Understanding
Derivada
Formación en ingeniería
Cálculo
Comprensión