Assessing Impact of Teaching, Advising and Mentoring on Students in the Enterprise Program

评估企业项目中教学、建议和指导对学生的影响

• 批准号: 0835986
• 负责人: Mary Raber
• 金额: $ 9.56万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0835986&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; Impact; Teaching; Advising; Mentoring

This exploratory project will measure and explain the impact of quality teaching, advising, and mentoring on Enterprise students at Michigan Tech, with particular focus on student retention in engineering majors, graduation rates, and career intentions. Recent data shows a substantially higher six-year graduation rates for Enterprise students compared to non-Enterprise students, the hypothesis of this project is that the high quality teaching, advising, and mentoring efforts of Enterprise faculty have had a significant and measurable impact on students? graduation rates and career success. The research will produce a completed study that documents evaluation methods and results and suggests practical applications of the knowledge gained from the project to the improvement of engineering education. It will also create a model that recommends methods and metrics for assessing the impact of teaching, advising, and mentoring on student retention in engineering, graduation, career intentions, and other outcomes. The project will utilize a variety of evaluation methods to study students enrolled in the Enterprise program and will use non-Enterprise engineering students as a control group. Since the impacts of teaching, advising, and mentoring are not typically susceptible to the kinds of metrics used to measure research accomplishments, a model that can directly measure quality in the classroom and its impact on student outcomes would be potentially transformative.The results of this research can help strengthen the business of engineering education by offering new evidence of the importance of teaching excellence, the impact of curriculum innovation, and the contribution of faculty who advise and mentor students, especially in active, applied learning environments such as Enterprise. This is valuable information for recruiting engineering students, for designing programs that retain engineering and other STEM students, and for attracting sustainable industry support for an active-learning curriculum.

该探索性项目将衡量和解释质量教学，咨询和指导对密歇根理工学院的企业学生的影响，尤其着重于在工程专业，毕业率和职业意图方面的学生保留。最近的数据显示，与非企业学生相比，企业学生的六年毕业率要高得多，该项目的假设是，高质量的教学，建议和指导的企业教师的工作对学生产生了重大且可衡量的影响？毕业率和职业成功。这项研究将提供一项完整的研究，以记录评估方法和结果，并提出从项目获得的知识来改善工程教育的实际应用。它还将创建一个模型，该模型推荐方法和指标，以评估教学，咨询和指导对工程，毕业，职业意图和其他成果的学生保留的影响。该项目将利用各种评估方法来研究参加企业计划的学生，并将使用非企业工程专业的学生作为对照组。 Since the impacts of teaching, advising, and mentoring are not typically susceptible to the kinds of metrics used to measure research accomplishments, a model that can directly measure quality in the classroom and its impact on student outcomes would be potentially transformative.The results of this research can help strengthen the business of engineering education by offering new evidence of the importance of teaching excellence, the impact of curriculum innovation, and the contribution of faculty who advise and mentor students,特别是在活跃的应用学习环境中，例如企业。对于招聘工程专业的学生，​​设计保留工程和其他STEM学生的计划以及吸引可持续的行业支持，这是有价值的信息。