Curricular Efficiency: What Role Does It Play in Student Success?
Curricular Efficiency: What Role Does It Play in Student Success?
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课程效率：它在学生的成功中发挥什么作用？
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2014
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C. Abdallah
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J. Wigdahl;G. Heileman;Ahmad Slim;C. Abdallah
在这篇文章中，我们考虑如何“精简”工程课程，以解决我们所称的课程效率的措施。(编者注：在这篇文章中，我们讨论了如何“精简”工程课程，以解决我们所称的课程效率(ficiency)。然后，我们将展示课程效率如何与学生的学业成功相关--特别是它对提高毕业率的影响，以及在攻读学位过程中积累的学分时数。在这项工作中，课程的学位计划被表示为一个有向无环图。然后开发了与EFfi效率相关的图论度量，并将其应用于从一些公立四年制院校获得的工程学学位计划。此外，班级上的学生成功数据适用于创建加权有向图，从该有向图中获得累积课程EFfi效率度量。这一指标的一个用途是提供一种工具，用于评估课程特点，并能够将这些课程与其他大学的课程进行比较，以指导可能的课程变化。
In this paper we consider how engineering curricula may be “streamlined” in order to address a measure we refer to as curricular efficiency . We then demonstrate how curricular efficiency correlates to student academic success—in particular, the effect it has on improved graduation rates, and the number of credit hours accumulated while pursing a degree. In this work, the degree plan for a curriculum is represented as a directed acylic graph. Graph-theoretic metrics related to efficiency are then developed and applied to engineering degree plans obtained from a number of public four-year institutions. In addition, student success data at the class level is adapted to create a weighted directed graph from which a cumulative curricular efficiency metric is obtained. One use for this metric is to provide a tool for evaluating curricular features and the ability to compare these to programs at other universities in order to guide possible curricular changes.