Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricula Innovations

工程教育：评估方法和课程创新

• 批准号: 9872498
• 负责人: Larry Shuman
• 金额: $ 92.28万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-10-01 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9872498&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Education; Assessment; Methodologies; Curricula

98-72498 Shuman University of Pittsburgh - Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricula Innovations This project addressees the crucial problem of how to best assure the engineering students receive a quality education, one that will enable them to make important contributions as professionals and citizens. In particular, the PI's will study how to evaluate engineering education programs, both for accreditation and to assess the increasing number of innovations that have resulted from almost a decade of NSF and private foundation funding. With the introduction of the "EC-2000" accreditation criteria, engineering programs now must develop and implement systems for continuous improvement. Faculty must demonstrate that the outcomes important to the mission of the institution and the objectives of the program are being met via sound measurement, and must give evidence that these results are applied to the further development and improvement of the program. It is proposed that many of these "improvements" can be adapted from the large volume of curricula innovations that have resulted from NSF sponsorship during the current decade. Consequently, it is equally important to assess a set of these innovations, particularly in terms of their educational value, reliability, implementation and maintenance costs, and ease of transportability to other institutional and/or programmatic settings. Thus the project focus is on the two areas of assessment: that of measuring outcomes and innovation. This will be done through a highly integrated effort involving a team of experienced engineering education researchers from six universities spanning four Coalitions (Foundation, Gateway, ESCEL, and SUCCEED). It also involves one NSF/NASA sponsored Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) program (UTEP), a comprehensive, nationwide effort to upgrade the quality of science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) education. The multi-disciplinary team of Principal Investigators is collecti vely involved in engineering curricula innovation, assessment, and educational research. The results of the investigations in this project will be pooled. The project objectives are to: - Examine a comprehensive spectrum of assessment methodologies; - Better understand what each can offer engineering educators for outcome assessment; - Learn how each can best be adapted by the country's 1538 engineering programs; and - Apply these methodologies to certain educational innovations in order to both test their power as assessment tools and provide more insight into the efficacy of the assessed innovations.

98-72498舒曼 匹兹堡大学-工程教育：评估方法和课程创新 该项目解决了如何最好地确保工程专业学生接受优质教育的关键问题，这将使他们能够作为专业人士和公民做出重要贡献。 特别是，PI将研究如何评估工程教育计划，无论是认证还是评估近十年来NSF和私人基金会资助的越来越多的创新。 随着“EC-2000”认证标准的引入，工程项目现在必须开发和实施持续改进的系统。 教师必须证明，重要的机构的使命和程序的目标的结果正在通过健全的测量得到满足，必须提供证据，这些结果被应用到程序的进一步发展和改进。 有人建议，这些“改进”中的许多可以适应大量的课程创新，导致在本十年的NSF赞助。 因此，同样重要的是要评估一套创新办法，特别是在教育价值、可靠性、实施和维护成本以及是否易于移植到其他机构和/或方案环境方面。 因此，该项目的重点是两个评估领域：衡量成果和创新。 这将通过一个高度综合的努力来完成，涉及来自六所大学的经验丰富的工程教育研究人员团队，跨越四个联盟（基金会，网关，ESCEL和成功）。 它还涉及一个NSF/NASA赞助的示范机构卓越（MIE）计划（UTEP），一个全面的，全国性的努力，以提高科学，工程和数学（SEM）教育的质量。 首席研究员的多学科团队共同参与工程课程创新、评估和教育研究。 将汇总本项目的调查结果。 该项目的目标是：- 检查全面的评估方法; -更好地了解每一种方法可以为工程教育工作者提供成果评估; -了解每个方法如何最好地适应该国的1538个工程项目;以及-将这些方法应用于某些教育创新，以测试其作为评估工具的能力，并提供对评估创新功效的更多见解。