Professional Skill Opportunities Survey: Development and Exploratory Factor Analysis
Professional Skill Opportunities Survey: Development and Exploratory Factor Analysis
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10.1109/fie56618.2022.9962700
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2022-10
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Tiantian Li;Eric A. Holloway;Victoria G. Bill;K. Douglas;Julie P. Martin
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作者：
Tiantian Li;Eric A. Holloway;Victoria G. Bill;K. Douglas;Julie P. Martin
这篇完整的研究论文介绍了探索性因素分析（EFA）的结果，专业技能的机会调查（PSO），我们设计来衡量本科工程专业学生的机会，发展和实践重要的非技术专业技能。我们使用Dall'alba的“存在方式”作为调查开发的理论框架，并根据过去的文献，专家评论和认知有声思维访谈生成结构定义。我们在2022年春季学期开始时在工程类中进行了调查。在比较了三个基于拟合优度指数和模型可解释性的EFA模型与理论模型之后，研究人员选择了一个五因素模型。全民教育的结果和文献的领导力和团队合作表明，这两种技能是高度相关的，可以结合成一个结构，强调“分担”的领导责任的团队。结果允许我们的团队细化我们的项池，修改构造定义，并生成新项。在未来的工作中，我们将在同一学期结束时对同一人群进行修订后的PSO调查，以进一步验证。我们还计划探索专业技能发展机会与学生社会支持之间的关系。我们希望PSO调查可以为教育工作者和机构提供一种手段，提供脚手架和更多的专业技能发展机会，并更好地为学生的工程劳动力做好准备。
This full research paper presents the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) results for the Professional Skill Opportunities survey (PSO) we designed to measure undergraduate engineering students’ opportunities to develop and practice important nontechnical professional skills. We use Dall’alba’s "ways of being" as the theoretical framework for the survey development and generated construct definitions based on past literature, expert review, and cognitive think-aloud interviews. We administered the survey in an engineering class at the beginning of the Spring 2022 semester. After comparing the three EFA models based on goodness-of-fit indices and model interpretability aligned to the theoretical model, the researchers selected a five-factor model. The EFA result and literature on leadership and teamwork showed these two skills are highly interrelated and could be combined into one construct to stress the "sharedness" of leadership responsibilities in teams. The result allowed our team to refine our item pool, revise construct definitions, and generate new items. In future work, we will administer the revised PSO survey to the same population at the end of the same semester as further validation. We also plan to explore the relationship between professional skill development opportunities and students’ social support. We hope the PSO survey can provide educators and institutions a means to offer scaffoldings and more opportunities for professional skill development and better prepare students for the engineering workforce.