of the student respondents in this study. There were three students who did not answer the

question specifying the student's academic major.

 The mode age of student participants was 21 years (33.6%, n=239). There were

173 respondents (24.3%) with a reported age of 20 years and 115 respondents (16.2%)

reporting an age of 22 years. There were four students who did not answer the item

regarding student age. The majority of the students were juniors (48.6%, n=345) and

seniors (41.4%, n=294). However sophomores accounted for 8.2% (n=58) of the class

and freshman accounted for 1.8% (n=13). There were six students who did not report

their college classification.

 Considering the number of courses students had taken in the same subject area to

the course of which instruments were administered, 11.5% (n=81) had taken no courses,

37.2% (n=263) had taken one to two courses, 26.7% (n=189) had taken three to four

classes and 24.6% (n=174) had taken more than four courses. There were nine students

who did not answer the item regarding number of similar courses taken.

 The number of problem sets assigned during a typical week for the entire group of

student respondents that had taken more than one hour to complete was a question asked

to help validate that problem solving based assignments were being used in the

classroom. It was found that 60.7% (n=432) of students had no assignments as such, but

33.8% (n=241) stated one to two problem sets during a typical week had taken more than

an hour to complete. There were 4.5% (n=32) claiming three to four problem sets

assigned during a typical week had taken more than an hour to complete and 1.0% (n=7)

stated more than five such assignments existed. There were four students who did not

answer the question regarding number of problem sets completed during a typical week.