The word "unintentional" means, "which is not intended" unintentional learning occurs when a person learns unconsciously or accidentally, without awareness or without being explicitly instructed or tutored. Unintentional learning refers to a situation in which people may learn about a complex domain without intending to do so. When asked, they may not even be able to articulate or recall what they learned. In this exploring study, unintentional knowledge means the knowledge gaining without intention to learn or through experience rather than direct instruction. As example, somebody knows how...

Experience in an engineering laboratory is an important element for engineering students and likely to enhance engineering concepts, which they have learned theoretically. Although the aim of the laboratory is giving opportunities to learn and gain experience, the author does not know what actually happens in the laboratory. The development of experience either intentionally or unintentionally, will happen when the students are 'doing' the laboratory. Through their experience, they may possibly be able to detect and solve problems or easily diagnose faults of the equipment. Thus, in this...

Hands-on laboratory classes have always been valued for the practical experience gained by engineering and science students, but the value however, has not been so easy to quantify. Currently, in the evaluation of engineering laboratory work, most assessment involves only explicitly specified learning outcomes and usually the element of tacit knowledge, implicit knowledge or practical intelligence has not been assessed or measured. We view implicit knowledge as an important aspect of practical intelligence, that is, the ability to use ones intelligence in the day-to-day situations that...