CAREER: Linking Motivation to Conceptual Change

这个工程教育研究启动补助金旨在了解学生的动机和意图对概念理解的影响;概念理解对工程实践和创新很重要。该研究将通过全国调查广泛关注学生，然后进行真实的实时数据收集;该项目将开发使用智能手机“应用程序”收集数据的新方法。 更广泛的意义和这个项目的重要性将发生时，结果转化为课堂实践在多个机构通过与工程教师的伙伴关系。 该项目将利用各种媒体向多个受众广泛传播成果。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改变前沿。 此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来创造对社会有用的成果和研究来实现的。

This engineering education research initiation grant seeks to understand the effect of student motivation and intention on conceptual understanding; conceptual understanding is important for engineering practice and innovation. The study will look broadly at students using a national survey which is followed by real time data collection; the project will develop new ways to collect data using smart-phone "apps". The broader significance and importance of this project will occur when the results are translated into classroom practice at multiple institutions through partnerships with engineering faculty members. The project will broadly disseminate the results to multiple audiences using a range of media. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.