Conducting a Delphi Study as the First Step in Developing a Concept Inventory for Engineering Design Graphics

(59)工程和（R）研究/评估。这个项目是开发协议（和测试手段）的基本概念，在工程图学。其目标是开始制定一个经过验证和测试的概念清单的进程。第一步，这个项目的主要目标，是一个德尔菲研究，以确定在工程图学的基本概念。结果将随后用于开发一个概念库存的工程制图。工程制图通常是工程学中最大的招生课程之一。今天的工程图学教育往往侧重于“工具的一天”，而不是基本的概念。学生就读于高中，社区学院和四年制院校的工程制图。工程专业的学生、技术专业的学生和技师专业的学生都要学习工程制图课程。几乎没有人试图在教育领域的各个层次上阐明这些课程。工程图学的概念清单将：（1）使高中教师能够确保他们所涵盖的主题很好地转化为高等教育环境;（2）确保2年制和4年制院校之间更大程度的衔接;（3）使各级图形课程改革成为可能。在过去的几十年里，已经做了很多工作，在开发工程课程的概念库存。概念清单被视为促进课程改革的一种手段，因为它们允许教师设计他们的课程，重点放在基础知识上，并为他们提供了一个有效的手段来评估学生对这些基本概念的理解。

(59) Engineering and (R) Research/ Assessment. This project is developing agreement about (and a means for testing) the fundamental concepts in engineering graphics. Its goal is to begin the process of developing a validated and tested concept inventory. The first step, the primary objective of this project, is a Delphi Study to identify the fundamental concepts in engineering graphics. The results will subsequently be used to develop a concept inventory for engineering graphics. Engineering graphics is often one of the largest enrollment courses within engineering. Much of engineering graphics education today tends to focus on the "tool of the day" rather than the fundamental concepts. Students are enrolled in engineering graphics within high schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions. Engineering students, technology students, and technician students all take engineering graphics courses. There has been little attempt to articulate between these courses across the various levels in the educational spectrum. A concept inventory for engineering graphics would: (1) enable high school teachers to ensure that the topics they cover translate well to higher education settings; (2) ensure a greater degree of articulation between 2-year and 4-year institutions; and (3) enable graphics curriculum reform at all levels.Concept Inventories have been developed for many fundamental courses in the STEM fields. In the past few decades, much work has been done in developing concept inventories for engineering courses. Concept inventories are viewed as a means for spurring curriculum reform because they allow faculty to design their courses with a focus on the fundamentals and they provide them with a validated means of assessing student understanding of these basic concepts.