Collaborative Research: Developing an Instrument for Measuring Student Innovative Engagement

工程教育创新运动的一部分是确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？创新的参与。该项目包括：1)开发一个针对工程教育的创新参与的可测试理论模型；2)开发一种测量工程课堂创新参与的工具；3)以技术手册的形式将该工具传播给工程教育者。该工具与ABET学生成果相一致，以解决问题为导向，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.