Comparing First-year Student Attitudes towards Engineering across a Liberal Arts University
Comparing First-year Student Attitudes towards Engineering across a Liberal Arts University
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比较文科大学一年级学生对工程学的态度
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2013
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S. Lord
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Rick T. Olson;T. Ngo;S. Lord
许多研究人员致力于确定对工程学的态度如何影响学生攻读工程学学位的决定并坚持该项目。研究发现，高持久度与入学学生对工程的总体印象有关。由于这些研究大多只评估工程学学生，他们的结果可能无助于确定学生为什么选择学习工程学。在这项工作中，我们调查了包括工程和非工程专业在内的不同学科的第一次大学(FTIC)学生的态度。2012年秋季，272名FTIC学生完成了一项调查，以了解他们对工程的态度。通过因子分析和回归分析，找出工程师区别于其他学生的特征，以及不同群体之间的共同特征。这些结果支持了以前的工作，表明选择工程学的学生与不选择工程学的学生对技术主题的态度不同。这项工作还提供了一些证据，表明在我们学校，女性对数学和工程学的态度与男性没有什么不同。通过更好地了解学生选择不同专业的态度，工科项目可能能够更有效地录取和招收学生。
Many researchers have worked to identify how attitudes towards engineering affect a student’s decision to pursue an engineering degree and persist in the program. High persistence has been found to be related to an entering student’s general impression of engineering. Because most of these studies assessed only engineering students, their results may not be helpful in identifying why students choose to study engineering. In this work, we investigate the attitudes of first time in college (FTIC) students in a variety of disciplines including engineering and non-engineering majors. During Fall 2012, 272 FTIC students completed a survey to explore their attitudes towards engineering. Factor analysis and regression analysis were used to identify which characteristics distinguish engineers from other students and which are shared among different groups. These results support prior work indicating that students who choose engineering have different attitudes towards technical topics than those who do not. This work also provides some evidence that attitudes of women to math and engineering are not different than those of men at our school. By better understanding the attitudes of students choosing different majors, engineering programs may be able to more effectively admit and recruit students.