Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation in Core Engineering Courses

增强核心工程课程的内在动力

• 批准号: 1140554
• 负责人: Michael Loui
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Intrinsic; Motivation; Core; Engineering

This project is redesigning a sophomore-level electrical and computer engineering course to increase students' intrinsic motivation for learning technical engineering content. Motivation research has found that students learn more when the content is linked to their career goals and when they can make some decisions about their own learning. This project is offering students different options for projects which will help them learn the required course content. The investigators are collecting evaluation data which relates students' motivation to their learning of key engineering concepts in digital logic and computer organization. Student learning and motivation in this new course are also being compared to a control group in a traditional engineering course on the same topic. Graduate teaching assistants and engineering faculty members are being trained to teach motivation-based engineering courses in other topics as well.

该项目正在重新设计一门二年级的电气与计算机工程课程，以提高学生学习技术工程内容的内在动机。动机研究发现，当内容与他们的职业目标联系在一起，当他们能够对自己的学习做出一些决定时，学生学到的东西会更多。这个项目为学生提供了不同的项目选择，帮助他们学习所需的课程内容。调查人员正在收集评估数据，这些数据与学生学习数字逻辑和计算机组织的关键工程概念的动机有关。这门新课程的学生的学习和动机也与传统工程课程中同一主题的控制组进行了比较。研究生助教和工程学教员正在接受培训，在其他主题中教授基于动机的工程学课程。