CAREER: Using Portfolios to Promote Knowledge Integration in Engineering Education

职业：利用作品集促进工程教育中的知识整合

• 批准号: 0238392
• 负责人: Jennifer Turns
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0238392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Using; Portfolios; Promote; Knowledge

The central idea of the proposed work is to explore portfolio creation as a means of promoting (and studying) knowledge integration by engineering students. The portfolio activities will build on existing strengths of the engineering curriculum by providing students with opportunities to reflect on their accomplishments, see and articulate connections between engineering and their accomplishments, and develop more integrated conceptual structures associated with engineering. Three objectives are to (1) document the nature of engineering students' conceptual structures in their engineering discipline, with specific attention to how integrated the conceptual structures are, (2) use what is known about portfolios in education to develop an intervention that makes it possible for engineering students to document and refine their conceptual structures in engineering, and (3) identify the learning affordances and cognitive challenges associated with the intervention. The work will be accomplished through a longitudinal study and a series of classroom studies. In the longitudinal study, two student cohorts will be set up in which each student will develop one portfolio per year of participation. Longitudinal study participants will construct portfolios as part of participation in an extracurricular program. In the classroom studies, the effects of portfolio construction will be explored in the context of individual courses. The education plan builds on the portfolio and knowledge integration emphases of the work. The plan includes commitments to: a) continue using portfolio assignments in the PI's courses, b) support portfolio development by faculty and students interested in portfolios, c) provide mentoring/research experiences for undergraduates, and d) create teaching modules that build on the portfolios.In terms of the broader impacts of the project underrepresented minorities will be over-sampled from the available student populations. The portfolios will represent a unique and useful information source for employers, students, and others with interest in engineering education. Also, the impact of the work will be on the engineering graduates who are better prepared to contribute to the engineering profession.The Division of Engineering Education & Centers (ENG/EEC) has agreed to co-fund this project.

拟议工作的中心思想是探索作品集创建作为促进（和研究）工程专业学生知识整合的一种手段。组合活动将建立在工程课程的现有优势，为学生提供机会，以反映他们的成就，看到和阐明工程和他们的成就之间的联系，并制定与工程相关的更综合的概念结构。三个目标是（1）记录工程专业学生在工程学科中的概念结构的性质，特别注意概念结构的整合程度，（2）使用教育中关于档案袋的已知知识来开发干预措施，使工程专业学生能够记录和完善他们在工程中的概念结构，以及（3）识别与干预相关的学习启示和认知挑战。 这项工作将通过纵向研究和一系列课堂研究来完成。在纵向研究中，将设立两个学生群体，每个学生每年参与一个投资组合。 纵向研究参与者将构建投资组合作为参与课外计划的一部分。在课堂研究中，将在个别课程的背景下探讨档案袋构建的效果。教育计划建立在工作重点的组合和知识整合的基础上。 该计划包括以下承诺：a）继续在PI的课程中使用组合作业，B）支持对组合感兴趣的教师和学生开发组合，c）为本科生提供指导/研究经验，以及d）创建基于组合的教学模块。这些投资组合将为雇主，学生和其他对工程教育感兴趣的人提供独特而有用的信息来源。此外，这项工作将对工程专业毕业生产生影响，他们将为工程专业做好更好的准备。工程教育中心司（ENG/EEC）已同意共同资助该项目。