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.

这个探索性项目将测量和解释质量教学、建议和指导对密歇根理工大学企业学生的影响，特别关注工程专业学生的保留率、毕业率和职业意向。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。这个项目的假设是，企业教师的高质量教学、建议和指导工作对学生产生了重大的、可衡量的影响。毕业率和事业成功。这项研究将产生一份完整的研究报告，记录评估方法和结果，并建议从项目中获得的知识的实际应用，以改善工程教育。它还将创建一个模型，推荐评估教学、咨询和指导对学生在工程、毕业、职业意向和其他结果方面的留存率的影响的方法和指标。该项目将利用各种评估方法来研究企业项目的学生，并将非企业工程专业的学生作为对照组。由于教学、建议和指导的影响通常不受用于衡量研究成果的各种指标的影响，因此可以直接衡量课堂质量及其对学生成绩的影响的模型将具有潜在的变革性。这项研究的结果可以通过提供新的证据来加强工程教育的业务，证明卓越教学的重要性，课程创新的影响，以及教师对学生的建议和指导的贡献，特别是在积极的，应用的学习环境中，如企业。这对于招聘工程专业学生、设计留住工程和其他STEM专业学生的课程、吸引可持续的行业支持积极学习课程都是有价值的信息。