Educational technology This subcategory codes technologies used to improve teaching and learning typically in a "real-time" classroom or laboratory setting.
Emancipatory theories are based on 'critical pedagogy', which is a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. In other words, it is a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness. In this tradition the teacher works to lead students to question ideologies and practices considered oppressive (including those at school), and encourage liberatory collective and individual responses to the actual conditions of their own lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_pedagogy [Accessed 10/03/05]
Engagement Outcomes were coded as engagement if the results were presented in terms of students becoming or not becoming more engaged or involved with course material, projects, the intervention, the subject matter, etc.
Engineering fundamentals The topic areas listed in this section are the topics covered on the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam.
Engineering major The majors listed in this category were derived from the majors for which ABET provides program criteria and supplemented with majors discussed in the literature. Articles were coded by major when the major or department in which the intervention took place was mentioned in the article. If the major, department, or fundamental area was not mentioned, a major was coded based on the departmental affiliation of the lead author(s).
Ethics (outcome) Outcomes were coded as ethics if the results were presented in terms of an understanding of professional or ethical responsibility.
Ethics (intervention) Instruction designed to guide students to develop the ability to make ethical decisions and appreciate ethical conduct.
Experimental Studies were coded as experimental if the article used the word "experiment" to describe the study or if there was some evidence of the use of the scientific method, however weak, in the design and conduct of the study.
Experimental with control groups Experiments in which the intervention group was compared with a control group.