An introspective study on students’ motivation, understanding and performance in engineering statics

• Main Authors: Haron, Habibah @ Norehan, Shaharoun, Awaluddin Mohamed, Puteh, Marlia
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: LB2300 Higher Education
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11327/1/GC_ASEE2010_singapore_Yan_01%5B1%5D.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11327/; http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:101183
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Statics is a fundamental engineering course, which many students find difficult [1-3] to understand. This has considerably affected the students’ performance in Statics and other follow-on courses, and consequently, disheartened them from pursuing engineering as a career [4, 5]. However, findings fr...