Workshop Proposal: Assessment and Dissemination of Educational Innovations in Introductory Engineering Science Courses

该项目正在支持一个讲习班，该讲习班将评估和传播方面的专家以及工程教育学者聚集在一起，他们有项目加强在工程科学入门课程中的学习。评估和传播方面的专家正在积极地从工程学之外以及工程学教育界招募。讲习班参与者是通过申请程序从目前的获奖者中挑选出来的，在申请过程中，他们提交一份详细的摘要，说明他们的项目，重点是他们的评估和传播计划。在研讨会上，工程教育学者和专家参与了评估和传播计划的小组讨论。这些讨论的目标是：(1)按干预类型(例如，动手学习)和项目目标类别(例如，提高解决问题的技能)确定评估早期工程科学课程创新的成功战略；(2)按创新类型确定成功传播的主要挑战；以及(3)制定克服这些挑战的战略。组织者正在编写一份讲习班报告，其中包括讲习班期间确定的有效评估和传播方法的案例研究。他们还计划为ASEE年会举办一次关于评估和传播的研讨会，并向工程教育进展提交一篇论文，以便在工程教育界广泛了解研讨会的结果。

The project is supporting a workshop that is bringing together experts in assessment and dissemination along with engineering education scholars who have projects to enhance learning in introductory engineering sciences courses. The experts in assessment and dissemination are being actively recruited from outside of engineering as well as from the engineering education community. Workshop participants are being selected from current awardees via an application process in which they submit an extended abstract describing their project with an emphasis on their assessment and dissemination plans. At the workshop, the engineering education scholars and experts are engaging in facilitated, small group discussions of the assessment and dissemination plans. The goals of these discussions are: (1) to identify successful strategies for assessment of innovations in early engineering science courses by types of intervention (e.g., hands-on learning) and by category of project goal (e.g., improve problem solving skills), (2) to delineate major challenges to successful dissemination by type of innovation, and (3) to develop strategies for overcoming these challenges. The organizers are preparing a workshop report which includes case studies of effective assessment and dissemination approaches identified during the workshop. They also are planning a workshop on assessment and dissemination for the ASEE Annual Meeting and a paper for submission to Advances in Engineering Education to provide wide access of the workshop findings within the engineering education community.