Collaborative Research: Developing an Instrument for Measuring Student Innovative Engagement

工程教育创新运动的一部分是决定新的教学方法是否有助于学生自己进行创新。该项目正在开发一种调查方式的工具，可以测量与学生创新相关的关键过程，随后被称为？创新参与。该项目是1)开发专门针对工程教育的创新参与度的可测试理论模型，2)开发一种测量工程课堂创新参与度的工具，以及3)以技术手册的形式向工程教育工作者传播该工具。该工具正与以解决问题为导向的辅助学生结果保持一致，并旨在用于认证评估和工程教育研究。

Part of the movement toward innovation in engineering education is determining if new approaches to instruction help students engage in innovation themselves. This project is developing a survey-style instrument that can measure key processes related to student innovation, subsequently termed ?innovative engagement.? The project is 1) developing a testable theoretical model of innovative engagement specific to engineering education, 2) developing an instrument to measure innovative engagement in engineering classrooms, and 3) disseminating the instrument to engineering educators in the form of a technical manual. The instrument is being aligned with ABET student outcomes orientated toward problem solving and is meant for accreditation assessment and engineering education research.