WIDER: EAGER: Self-Assessment Study of the Use of Evidence-based Instructional Practices in Engineering

该项目名为“工程学中使用循证教学实践的自我评估研究”，将进行一项自我研究，以确定课程和教师使用循证教学实践的比例，使用此类实践的频率以及这些实践如何分布在宾夕法尼亚州立大学的本科工程课程中。该研究包括两个阶段：1）专注于在学生家庭部门的教师教授的课程中使用循证实践，2）专注于大型招生课程，如计算机科学，数学和物理。研究设计结合了定量和定性方法的混合物。这项研究将为今后在本科工程项目中更广泛地实施循证实践奠定基础。该项目提议开始工程学院和理学院之间的合作，以影响两个学院提供的大量招生课程。该项目将让行政领导人了解他们对循证实践的认识，他们如何支持使用这些实践，以及他们认为哪些是更广泛使用这些实践的障碍。

The project entitled - Self-Assessment Study of the Use of Evidence-based Instructional Practices in Engineering - will conduct a self-study to determine what fraction of courses and instructors use evidence-based instructional practices, how frequently such practices are used and how the practices are distributed across the undergraduate engineering courses at Pennsylvania State University. The research consists of two phases: 1) a focus on the use of evidence-based practices in courses taught by the faculty in the student's home department, and 2) a focus on large enrollment courses such as Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. The research design incorporates a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods. The study will lay the foundation for future efforts to implement evidence-based practices more widely within undergraduate engineering programs. The project proposes to begin a cooperation between the College of Engineering and the College of Science to impact large enrollment courses offered in both Colleges. The project will engage administrative leaders to understand their awareness of evidence-based practices, how they are supporting the use of such practices, and what they see as barriers to wider use of such practices.