Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences

开发成果评估工具来识别工程学生在热学和运输科学方面的误解

• 批准号: 0127806
• 负责人: Ronald Miller
• 金额: $ 29.72万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0127806&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Outcomes; Assessment; Instrument; Identifying

This project is creating an outcomes assessment instrument to identify engineering student misconceptions in thermal and transport science courses, such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer. The instrument focuses on misconceptions concerning fundamental molecular-level and atomic-level phenomena, including heat, light, diffusion, chemical reactions, and electricity, which differ in significant ways from observable, macroscopic causal behavior.Important student misconceptions identified by surveying experienced engineering faculty are validated through student interviews for inclusion in a multiple-choice pencil-and-paper instrument patterned after successful misconception instruments such as the Force Concept Inventory. The instrument is being field tested to demonstrate its validity and reliability and its usefulness for both course-level and program-level assessment of student misconceptions in thermal and transport science topics. The instrument is designed to allow for pre-testing (at the beginning of a course or curriculum) and post-testing (at the end of a course or curriculum) to measure changes in student mental model development.

该项目正在创建一个成果评估工具，以识别工程学生在热力学、流体力学、传热和传质等热学和输运科学课程中的误解。该仪器的重点是关于基本分子水平和原子水平现象的误解，包括热、光、扩散、化学反应和电，这些现象与可观察到的宏观因果行为有很大的不同。通过对经验丰富的工程学院的调查发现的重要的学生误解，通过学生访谈来验证，并将其纳入笔纸多项选择工具中，该工具是在成功的误解工具（如Force Concept Inventory）之后设计的。该仪器正在进行现场测试，以证明其有效性和可靠性，以及在课程水平和项目水平上评估学生对热学和运输科学主题的误解的有用性。该仪器的设计允许进行预测试（在课程开始时）和后测试（在课程结束时），以测量学生心理模型发展的变化。