The Institutional Impact of the Advanced Technology Education Program on Community Colleges

项目摘要哥伦比亚大学师范学院社区学院研究中心正在对高级技术教育(ATE)计划资助的四个中心和六个项目进行案例研究，以提出加强ATE中心和项目及其所在学院的建议。ATE计划鼓励改变技术人员的教育，特别是在两年制大学。要想使这一变化持续下去并加以复制，就必须将其延长到授权期之后，并在社区学院实现制度化。这项研究主要使用定性方法，记录了ATE项目在多大程度上融入了社区学院更广泛的活动，以及该项目对潜在障碍的影响，这些障碍已知会阻碍旨在改革和改善技师教育的倡议。需要解决的问题包括：项目如何影响两年制学院技术人员和其他人员的教学；与工商界的伙伴关系如何影响这些机构与学院之间的关系；项目如何影响与四年制学院的衔接协议的发展以及与中学的关系；以及项目如何影响学院的技术和学术教职人员之间的关系。这项研究确定了将项目中产生的活动和改进嵌入学校使命的机制，以及这些机制如何让教师参与专业发展和用于教育学生的活动。

Project SummaryThe Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University is performing case studies on four centers and six projects funded by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program to develop recommendations to strengthen both the ATE centers and projects and the colleges at which they are housed. The ATE program encourages change in the education of technicians particularly at two year colleges. For this change to be sustained and replicated, it must extend beyond the grant period and achieve institutionalization at the community college. Using primarily qualitative methodologies, the study documents the extent to which the ATE projects have become integrated into the broader activities of the community colleges, and the effects of the program on the underlying barriers known to frustrate initiatives aimed at reforming and improving technician education. Questions to be addressed include how the projects affect the pedagogy of technicians and others in the two year college; how the partnerships with industry and business affect the relationship between those institutions and the college; how the projects affect the development of articulation agreements with four year colleges and relations with secondary schools; and how the projects influence the relation between technical and academic faculty at the institution. The study identifies mechanisms by which activities and improvements generated in the projects are embedded in the missions of the schools, and how they engage faculty in professional development and the activities used to educate students.