@inproceedings{77ed958ad139438299cba053988b38bf,
title = "Don't Just Think, Ponder: Metacognitive Skills Among Engineering Students With and Without Work Placements",
abstract = "In today's world engineers need to be equipped with a range of different skills and experiences to succeed. There needs to be a combination of strong levels of metacognition and self-awareness. Nineteen final year mechanical engineering students who completed an industry placement and 20 students who did not took a metacognitive Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS) survey to test their levels of self-reflection and self-awareness. The two groups' results found higher metacognitive skills in the work placement group in all three areas tested: self-reflection, need for self-reflection (self-awareness) and insight. The study suggests that these metacognitive levels could be increased from taking a work placement year Recommendations are offered on how universities can improve the course curriculum to benefit work placement students and non-work placement students.",
keywords = "employability, Metacognitive skills, self-awareness, work placements",
author = "M. Leong and S. Junaid",
note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.; 52nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering: Educating Responsible Engineers, SEFI 2024 ; Conference date: 02-09-2024 Through 05-09-2024",
year = "2024",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.5281/zenodo.14254902",
language = "English",
series = "SEFI 2024 - 52nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering, Proceedings: Educating Responsible Engineers",
pages = "150--158",
editor = "Zufferey, {Jessica Dehler} and Greet Langie and Roland Tormey and Nagy, {Balazs Vince}",
booktitle = "SEFI 2024 - 52nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering, Proceedings",
}