Development of an Instrument to Measure Perspectives of Engineering Education Among College Students
Development of an Instrument to Measure Perspectives of Engineering Education Among College Students
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开发测量大学生工程教育前景的工具
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2008
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通讯作者：
Jiong Tang
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作者：
Qing Li;D. McCoach;H. Swaminathan;Jiong Tang
几十年来，工科学生的数量一直在下降，吸引合格的学生已经成为美国工科学校的一项紧迫任务。学生对工程的看法在他们的大学专业选择中起着重要的作用。本项目设计了一套有效的标准化测量工具，对大学生的工程概观进行了测量，并对测量的编制、工具管理和因子分析进行了介绍。统计分析表明，大学生普遍认同工程学对社会有益，但他们倾向于认为获得工程学学位需要付出太多努力，而且工程学是一项要求很高的职业。此外，他们对攻读工程学学位的个人利益持中立态度，最后，他们并不觉得学习工程学或将工程学作为自己的职业特别有趣。这些发现为美国工科学校招生人数下降和辍学率上升提供了很好的解释。
The number of engineering students has been declining for decades and attracting qualified students has become an urgent task for engineering schools in The United States. Perspectives students hold towards engineering play an important role in their college major selection. An effective standardized instrument measuring general perspectives about engineering among college students is designed in this project and survey development, instrument administration, and factor analysis are presented. The statistical analysis reveals that college students in general agree that engineering is beneficial to the society; however, they tend to believe that it takes too much effort to gain an engineering degree and that engineering is a demanding career. Further, they are neutral about the personal benefits of pursuing a degree in engineering, and finally, they do not feel that studying engineering or making engineering as their profession is particularly interesting. These findings provide a good explanation to the declining enrollment and increasing dropout rates in engineering schools in the United States.