Traditional Instruction on Electrical Circuits
Traditionally, in vocational engineering education, curricula about electrical circuits have two
components: textbook-based instruction and practical, hands-on lessons. In the textbooks, the
subject matter is often approached from a factual and calculus-based angle. Students are presented with facts, definitions, and laws, and they are taught equations that can be used to solve
standard circuit problems Therefore, textbooks and exercises in them often emphasize procedural skill, which is “the ability to execute action sequences to solve problems”
, and the reproduction of facts and definitions.