The differential effects of pre-engineering curricula on middle School Students’ attitudes to and knowledge of engineering careers
The differential effects of pre-engineering curricula on middle School Students’ attitudes to and knowledge of engineering careers
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工科预科课程对中学生工程职业态度和知识的差异化影响
DOI：
10.1109/fie.2007.4417918
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2007
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通讯作者：
Joel S. Bloom
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作者：
L. Hirsch;J. Carpinelli;H. Kimmel;R. Rockland;Joel S. Bloom
中学生对数学、科学和工程的态度调查是为了衡量学生对工程的态度和对工程职业的了解，作为扩大未来工程师人才库计划的一部分，因为学生的态度被认为是学生是否追求工程职业的重要预测因素。该计划的重点是在初中和高中使用工程预科课程，并告知学生，教师，家长和学校辅导员有关工程职业的信息，因为大多数学生不知道工程是什么或工程师做什么，因此不探索工程作为职业选择或在关键的初中或高中阶段为它做学术准备。继续对较年轻的学生进行调查表明，有些问题中使用的语言对一些中学生来说过于复杂，调查已经修改。本研究以大样本的学业成绩不同的中学生为研究对象，对修订后的问卷的心理测量学特性进行了检验。在他们的科学和数学课上，以各种不同的方式接触到工程前概念的学生群体之间的比较，探讨了接触可能会在多大程度上影响学生对工程的态度和工程职业知识。
The Middle School Students' Attitude to Mathematics, Science and Engineering Survey was developed to measure students' attitudes to engineering and knowledge about engineering careers as part of a program to enlarge the future pool of engineers because students' attitudes have been found to be an important predictor of whether students pursue careers in engineering. The program focuses on using pre-engineering curricula in middle and high schools, and informing students, teachers, parents, and school counselors about careers in engineering because most students do not know what engineering is or what engineers do and therefore do not explore engineering as a career option or prepare for it academically in the critical middle or high school years. Continued use of the survey with younger students indicated that the language used in some of the questions was too sophisticated for some middle school students and the survey has been revised. A study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the revised survey with a large sample of academically diverse middle school students. Comparisons among groups of students exposed to pre-engineering concepts in various different ways in their science and mathematics classes have been made to explore the extent to which the exposure may have affected students' attitudes to engineering and knowledge of engineering careers.