New #publication “#Engineering Students' Thinking About Technical Systems: An #Ontological Categories Approach” published #openaccess in @FrontEducation doi.org/10.3389/feduc.… | @TU_Muenchen 
(2) Our paper aims at identifying ontological categories as higher-order #knowledge structures that underlie engineering students' thinking about technical systems.
(3) Derived from interviews, these ontological categories include, inter alia, a focus on the #behavior, #structure, or #purpose of a #technical system.
(4) We designed a paper-based test to assess these ontological categories in a sample of 340 first-year students in different engineering disciplines. Based on their activation patterns across ontological categories, students clustered into six different ontological profiles.
(5) #Study program, #gender as well as objective and self-perceived #cognitive abilities were associated with differences in jointly activated ontological categories. Additional idiosyncratic influences and experiences, however, seemed to play a more important role.
(6) Our results can inform university instruction and support successful co-operation in engineering.
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