Collaborative Research: Assessing Technical Entrepreneurship Learning in Engineering Education

工程-其他(59)该项目是匹兹堡大学和全国大学生发明家和创新者联盟(NCIIA)的合作努力，正在研究工程项目中创业的教与学，并定义衡量创业知识和思维变化的方法。调查人员正在进行一项全国性的研究，以确定全美330所工程学校的创业教育状况，并使用聚类算法确定类似类型的方法。具体地说，他们正在收集有关创业方案和课程、创业的其他课外学习机会和资源以及在每个背景下催化创业教育的个人的信息。利用这些数据，他们选择了30至35所具有代表性的学校样本，并对学生在高级工程课程中的学习情况进行了深入的跨机构分析，这些课程涉及创业和相关主题。为了做到这一点，他们管理着两个单独出资开发的评估工具：一个是衡量自我报告的创业概念和术语熟悉度的知识清单，另一个是评估学生对工程学创业案例的书面回应的创业“心态”问卷。通过统计和建模工作，他们正在将学生的结果直接与教学实践和机构特征联系起来。根据这些结果，他们正在为教学、项目开发和评估方面的最佳实践制定指导方针。在一名独立评估员的领导下，该项目正在利用对文书和协议的专家分析、数据建模以及讲习班参与和调查数据进行形成性和总结性评价。结果正在通过使用NCIIA网络的工程学领域有影响力的教员和企业家领袖、通过期刊出版物、通过面向工程学教育和企业家受众的会议演示以及通过教员研讨会来传播。更广泛的影响包括传播结果以及工具和协议，特别是通过教员讲习班和NCIIA网络，并通过帮助满足行业对具有创业技能的工程师的需求。

Engineering - Other (59)The project, a collaborative effort between the University of Pittsburgh and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), is building on previous work to investigate the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship in engineering programs and defining ways to measure changes in entrepreneurial knowledge and thinking. The investigators are conducting a nationwide study to determine the status of entrepreneurship education in 330 engineering schools across the U.S. and to identify similar types of approaches using a clustering algorithm. Specifically, they are collecting information on programs and courses in entrepreneurship, other extracurricular learning opportunities and resources for entrepreneurship, and the individuals catalyzing entrepreneurship education in each context. With this data they are selecting a representative sample of 30 to 35 schools and performing an in-depth cross-institutional analysis of students' learning in upper-level engineering courses that address entrepreneurship and related topics. In doing this, they are administering two assessment instruments that have been developed under separate funding: a knowledge inventory that measures self-reported familiarity with entrepreneurial concepts and terms and an entrepreneurial "mindset" rubric that appraises students' written responses to engineering-based entrepreneurship cases. Through statistical and modeling efforts, they are mapping student outcomes directly to teaching practices and institutional characteristics. With these results, they are developing guidelines for best practices in teaching, program development, and assessment. Under the leadership of an independent evaluator, the project is using expert analysis of the instruments and protocols, data modeling, and workshop participation and survey data to conduct formative and summative evaluation. Results are being disseminated through influential faculty and entrepreneurial leaders in engineering using NCIIA's network, through journal publications, through conference presentations for engineering education and entrepreneurial audiences, and through faculty workshops. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the results and the instruments and protocols, especially through faculty workshops and the NCIIA network, and by helping to meet a need in industry for engineers with entrepreneurial skills.