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

 

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Autores: Sotomayor Cano , Sugey, López Martínez , Rocío, Chaparro Sánchez, Ricardo
פורמט: artículo original
סטטוס:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2025
תיאור: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. 
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
מוסד:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
שפה:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/542
גישה מקוונת:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reducacion/article/view/542
מילת מפתח:Derivatives
Engineering Education
Calculus
Understanding
Derivada
Formación en ingeniería
Cálculo
Comprensión