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A qualifying paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Education. Abstract: The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of an engineering education afterschool learning program upon elementary students' understanding of perimeter and area measurement. The study also investigated what activities children attribute to the ... read morework of engineers, how they define technology, and how these ideas change after they go through an engineering education afterschool program. This study, conducted in rural/suburban Massachusetts in 2005, included forty-two elementary students. Students were voluntarily enrolled in the afterschool program and met during the school year, working collaboratively in a series of ten sessions, eight of which were instructional. Each student engineering group completed curriculum activities from selected modules of an established elementary program for engineering education while also receiving mathematics instruction on the measurement of perimeter and area. Student understanding was assessed using a qualitative and quantitative research design.read less
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