Report on Engineering Design Self-Efficacy and Demographics of Makerspace Participants Across Three Universities
Report on Engineering Design Self-Efficacy and Demographics of Makerspace Participants Across Three Universities
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DOI：
10.1115/1.4046649
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
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3.3
通讯作者：
Linsey, Julie S.
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作者：
Hilton, Ethan C.;Talley, Kimberly G.;Linsey, Julie S.
大学创客空间被吹捧为提高学生学习、参与、留存和创造力的可能途径。随着它们在世界范围内的普及，调查它们的建立、管理和使用的研究也越来越多。然而，很少有研究使用经验数据来评估这些空间如何影响使用它们的人。本研究对三所大学的创客空间进行了研究，测量了工程设计（ED）的自我效能感，以及它与参与创客空间以及学生人口统计学的关系。这三个大学创客空间包括位于美国西南部一所西班牙裔大学的相对较新的创客空间，位于东部一所文科大学的创客空间，该大学在过去十年中创建了一个工程项目，以及位于东南部的一所大型研究型大学的创客空间，该大学通常被认为是美国顶级项目之一。这三所大学的学生都接受了调查，以确定他们对大学创客空间的参与程度，以及他们如何看待自己在工程设计方面的能力。研究结果显示，工程设计自我效能感（EDSE）与学术创客空间参与呈正相关。某些人口因素与选择使用学术创客空间的学生比例之间也存在相关性。这些发现为社区提供了关于使用创客空间的学生自我效能感的重要经验证据，并为大学继续向学生提供这些空间提供支持。
University makerspaces have been touted as a possible avenue for improving student learning, engagement, retention, and creativity. As their popularity has increased worldwide, so has the amount of research investigating their establishment, management, and uses. There have, however, been very few studies that use empirical data to evaluate how these spaces are impacting the people using them. This study of three university makerspaces measures engineering design (ED) self-efficacy and how it is correlated with involvement in the makerspaces, along with student demographics. The three university makerspaces include a relatively new makerspace at a Hispanic-serving university in the southwestern US, makerspaces at an eastern liberal arts university with an engineering program that has been created within the last decade, and a makerspace at a large, research university in the southeast often considered to be one of the top programs in the US. Students at all three universities are surveyed to determine their involvement in their university's makerspace and how they perceive their own abilities in engineering design. The findings presented in this paper show a positive correlation between engineering design self-efficacy (EDSE) and involvement in academic makerspaces. Correlations are also seen between certain demographic factors and the percentage of students who choose to use the academic makerspace available to them. These findings provide crucial empirical evidence to the community on the self-efficacy of students who use makerspaces and provide support for universities to continue making these spaces available to their students.