IMPLEMENTATION OF TABULAR INTEGRATION BY PARTS IN DBM2013 TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS FOR STUDENTS OF CIVIL, ELECTRICAL AND MARINE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IN POLITEKNIK UNGKU OMAR

Abstract

Integration by Parts is a subtopic covered in Engineering Mathematics 2 (DBM2013) for second semester Politeknik Ungku Omar engineering students. Based on previous Teaching and Learning (T&L) experiences, majority of the students typically facing difficulties in solving the by part integral problems. In the effort to ease the process in traditional integration by parts as well as improving performance of the students, this work attempts to study the effectiveness of implementing tabular integration by parts technique. This study involved in total of 107 students from Civil, Electrical and Marine Engineering Department in Politeknik Ungku Omar who enrolled Engineering Mathematics 2 (DBM2013) for December 2018 session. The effectiveness of the implementation of tabular integration by parts is measured by analyzing the data obtained from pre-test (by part technique) and post-test (by tabular integration technique). Survey of students’ interest was conducted and the result of final examination was adopted as the benchmark to evaluate the performance of students’ by part integral skill. Based on the collected December 2018 session final examination answer script, 52 students had answered Question 5 (i.e by parts integral problems) by using tabular integral by parts technique. Integration by parts is an optional question in DBM2013 final examination, hence almost half of the students confidently chosed to answer Question 5. According to the marked answer script, 96% of the students obtained perfect solutions by using tabular integral by parts technique. This indicates a promising achievement in T&L by using tabular integral.