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

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون: Sotomayor Cano , Sugey, López Martínez , Rocío, Chaparro Sánchez, Ricardo
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2025
الوصف: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. 
البلد:Portal de Revistas UCR
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
اللغة:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/542
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reducacion/article/view/542
كلمة مفتاحية:Derivatives
Engineering Education
Calculus
Understanding
Derivada
Formación en ingeniería
Cálculo
Comprensión