Rigorous Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of Practice

工程教育的严谨研究：创建实践社区

• 批准号: 0341127
• 负责人: Frank Huband
• 金额: $ 54.95万
• 依托单位: American Society For Engineering Education
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-15 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0341127&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rigorous; Research; Engineering; Education; Creating

This project is establishing the structure and mechanism for training faculty to conduct rigorous engineering education research through a collaboration of engineering educators, learning scientists, and faculty developers. The engineering educators are involved through the American Society for Engineering Education. Learning scientists are involved through the Education in the Professions Division of the American Educational Research Association. Faculty developers in higher education are involved through the Professional and Organizational (POD) Network in Higher Education.The structure for training faculty is being established by creating and presenting workshops for engineering faculty on conducting rigorous research in engineering education. Five-day workshops are being offered for engineering faculty on conducting rigorous educational research. One workshop is being held each summer between 2004 and 2006. The development of this project is sustained through establishment of a community of practice. The impact of the workshops and the effectiveness of the community of practice are being assessed as part of a well developed plan by an external evaluator.This project is expanding the boundaries of engineering education research by disseminating information from the learning sciences and faculty development into engineering education. This is allowing powerful partnerships to be formed as information about how students learn and teaching methods that support students' learning are being coupled with the content knowledge of practicing engineering educators. The community of practice is enabling the effective dissemination at a national level.

该项目通过工程教育工作者、学习科学家和教师开发人员的合作，建立培训教师进行严格工程教育研究的结构和机制。工程教育工作者通过美国工程教育协会参与其中。学习科学家通过美国教育研究协会的教育部参与其中。通过高等教育专业和组织网络（POD），高等教育的师资开发人员参与其中，通过为工程系教师举办关于在工程教育中进行严格研究的讲习班，正在建立师资培训结构。 正在为工程学院举办为期五天的讲习班，讨论如何进行严格的教育研究。2004年至2006年每年夏季举办一次讲习班。该项目的发展通过建立实践社区得以持续。作为一项完善的计划的一部分，一名外部评估人员正在评估讲习班的影响和实践社区的有效性，该项目正在扩大工程教育研究的范围，将学习科学和教师发展方面的信息传播到工程教育中。这使得强大的合作伙伴关系能够形成，因为有关学生如何学习的信息和支持学生学习的教学方法正在与实践工程教育工作者的内容知识相结合。同业交流圈正在促进国家一级的有效传播。