PECASE: Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education

PECASE：从小规模学习：利用代表性不足的本科生的个人叙述来促进工程教育的制度变革

• 批准号: 1055900
• 负责人: Alice Pawley
• 金额: $ 41.68万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1055900&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PECASE; Learning; Small; Numbers; Using

This engineering education research project seeks to answer the question of why some groups are chronically under-represented in engineering degree programs. To address this issue the PI will use narratives to understand how under-represented engineering students describe interactions with their educational institutions and what institutional factors affect persistence and success. The project will develop and then disseminate tools based on "personas" and "informance" to help policy makers learn how institutions can evolve to better address and support the experiences of under-represented groups.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to provide new insights into the perplexing and persistent program of low representation of some groups in engineering degree programs. The PI plans to focus on both primarily white institutions and also minority serving institutions to address questions on structural differences using a narrative approach. Should the project be successful, it will inform policy decisions within engineering schools and potentially at other higher education administrative level as well. The project thus has potential broad impact both on the knowledge base used to make decisions and practice.

这个工程教育研究项目旨在回答为什么一些群体在工程学位课程中长期代表性不足的问题。为了解决这个问题，PI将使用叙述来了解代表性不足的工程专业学生如何描述与他们的教育机构的互动，以及哪些制度因素影响了坚持和成功。该项目将开发并随后传播基于“人物角色”和“绩效”的工具，以帮助决策者了解机构如何发展，以更好地处理和支持代表性不足群体的经历。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性将为工程学位课程中一些群体代表性低的令人困惑和持久的计划提供新的见解。PI计划将重点放在主要是白人机构和少数民族服务机构上，以叙事的方式解决结构差异的问题。如果这个项目取得成功，它将为工程学院的决策提供信息，也可能为其他高等教育行政层面的决策提供信息。因此，该项目对用于决策和实践的知识库具有潜在的广泛影响。