Jiabin Zhu

Understanding Chinese Engineering Doctoral Students in U.S. Institutions

A personal epistemology perspective

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This book uses a mixed-method approach to address the topic of personal epistemology among Chinese engineering doctoral students from U.S. institutions. It presents a broad view of the epistemological development among Chinese engineering students from five U.S. Midwestern doctoral programs. At the same time it provides deep insights into the thinking styles and behavioral patterns for each particular epistemological developmental stage and offers practical examples from students' academic experiences in these programs.It allows readers to gain an understanding of Chinese engineering students' academic lives in U.S. institutions through a so… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-981-10-1136-8
EAN: 9789811011368
Produktnummer: 20366653
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 190 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'943 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße und 21 farbige Abbildungen, 40 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Dr. Jiabin Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her primary research interests relate to engineering education, graduate education, and students' cognitive development. She has published multiple peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Journal of Engineering Education, Advances in Engineering Education. For her work on the cognitive development of Chinese engineering doctoral students in U.S. institutions, she received the 2013 Doctoral Thesis Award from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University. Jiabin Zhu obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University. She received another M.S. in Optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences and a B.S. in Physics from East China Normal University.