Measuring the value added from service learning in project-based engineering education
Measuring the value added from service learning in project-based engineering education
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衡量基于项目的工程教育中服务学习的附加值
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2010
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Chris Swan
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A. Bielefeldt;K. Paterson;Chris Swan
最近，工程教育中基于项目的服务学习（PBSL）激增。PBSL涵盖了一系列以社区为基础的本地和国际项目。虽然PBSL的经验可以嵌入课程，在许多情况下，这些活动是由非学术组织，如无国界工程师促进。这些PBSL活动经历了越来越多的评估水平，部分原因是美国工程项目认证的成果评估要求，也因为它对学生参与者产生了明显的积极影响。这些研究表明，学生获得的知识和技能至少与传统的基于项目的学习（PBL）的收益相当。注意力也越来越多地集中在PBSL对学生态度和身份的潜在影响。正是在这些领域，PBL与PBSL的影响差异似乎更深刻，但在各种程序中的学生参与人数少，缺乏协调的评估工作限制了这些结果的统计意义。本文重点介绍了可能的方法来确定基于服务的学习的附加值，特别是当耦合到基于项目的工程教育。文中还提供了工程中PBSL与PBL对比分析的实例，以进一步考察这一领域的现状。要充分了解服务学习对工程师教育的影响，需要进行大量的研究。
There has been a recent surge in project based service learning (PBSL) in engineering education. PBSL covers a spectrum ofcommunity-based projects both locally and internationally. While PBSL experiences can be embedded within courses, in many casesthese activities are facilitated by non-academic organizations, such as Engineers Without Borders. These PBSL activities haveundergone increasing levels of assessment, driven in part by the outcomes assessment requirements for engineering programaccreditation in the U.S., but also because of apparent positive impacts to student participants. These studies indicate that theknowledge and skills gained by the students are at least on par with gains from traditional project-based learning (PBL). Attention isalso increasingly being focused on the potential impacts of PBSL on student attitudes and identity. It is in these areas that differencesin the influence of PBL versus PBSL appear more profound, yet small numbers of student participants in various programs and a lackof coordinated assessment efforts limits the statistical significance of these results. This paper highlights possible methods to determinethe added value of service-based learning especially when coupled to project-based engineering education. Examples of evidence in theanalysis of PBSL versus PBL in engineering are provided to further examine the state of this field. Considerable research will beneeded to fully understand how service learning is impacting the education of engineers.