AC 2009-589: REPAIRING MISCONCEPTIONS: A CASE STUDY WITH
ADVANCED ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON THEIR USE OF SCHEMA
TRAINING MODULES
Dazhi Yang, Purdue University
Dazhi Yang is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN. She obtained both her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Educational
Technology from Purdue in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Prior to joining the School of
Engineering Education, Dr. Yang worked on a variety of interdisciplinary research projects in
instructional design, distance and online learning, assessment and evaluation, technology
integration, and information security and assurance in K12 schools. She is the 2009 Young
Researcher Award winner from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special
Interest Group: Instructional Technology. Her current research interests are innovative
instructional strategies for helping students learn difficult engineering concepts, assessment and
evaluation, and technology-enhanced learning.
Ruth Streveler, Purdue University
Ruth A. Streveler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue
University. Before coming to Purdue she spent 12 years at Colorado School of Mines, where she
was the founding Director of the Center for Engineering Education. Dr. Streveler earned a BA in
Biology from Indiana University-Bloomington, MS in Zoology from the Ohio State University,
and Ph.D in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at M?noa. Her primary
research interest is investigating students’ understanding of difficult concepts in engineering
science.
Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines
Dr. Ronald L. Miller is professor of chemical engineering and Director of the Center for
Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines where he has taught chemical
engineering and interdisciplinary courses and conducted engineering education research for the
past 23 years. Dr. Miller has received three university-wide teaching awards and has held a Jenni
teaching fellowship at CSM. He has received grant awards for education research from the
National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education FIPSE program, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and has
published widely in the engineering education literature. He won the Wickenden Award from the
American Society for Engineering Education for best paper published in the Journal of
Engineering Education during 2005.
Aidsa Santiago, Purdue
Aidsa I. Santiago-Román is a PhD candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN. Aidsa has been teaching math and engineering courses to
undergraduate students in Puerto Rico for about 12 years. Since 2000 she has been an instructor
in the Department of Engineering Science and Materials at the University of Puerto Rico in
Mayaguez, which is considered the Leading Hispanic Engineering Institution in the US. In 2007,
she started her doctoral studies and has been a research assistant in the area of engineering student
misconceptions in statics and thermal and transport sciences.
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