Assessing the Learning Gains of Manufacturing Students in an Integrated Hands-on Curriculum

评估制造业学生在综合实践课程中的学习收获

• 批准号: 1432284
• 负责人: Mukasa Ssemakula
• 金额: $ 22.99万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1432284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; Learning; Gains; Manufacturing; Students

The lack of hands-on experience is one of the major competency gaps in engineering education. This project lead by Wayne State University is addressing this problem through continued work on the Manufacturing Integrated Learning Lab (MILL). The MILL model for engineering education uses team based projects, coordinated across multiple courses, culminating in the design and making of a functional product. The unifying theme is the design and fabrication of a functional product that students encounter repeatedly from different perspectives in several different courses. The MILL curricula has shown excellent learning gains at the sites where it has been implemented. In this project the hands-on MILL model will be expanded to additional institutions including Macomb Community College, Henry Ford Community Colleges and Prarie View A&M, one of the Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs). The assessment methods developed to measure student learning gains in the MILL program will be tested in this expanded implementation. Results regarding the learning gains for students in MILL-type curricula, along with a unique standardized assessment incorporating a realistic physical manipulative, will prepare the MILL Model for a national scale-up. This project will demonstrate a flexible, effective, low cost and readily transferrable manufacturing engineering curriculum model that prepares a diverse and skilled workforce that meets industry needs. This project will use psychometrically validated standardized testing to evaluate and validate attainment of target hands-on competencies. This is an innovative use of standardized testing for programmatic evaluation. This approach can document attainment of specific targeted learning outcomes. By comparing performance on the test instrument between intervention groups and comparison non-intervention groups, the project will document the learning gains attributable to the MILL Model intervention. The project will deploy this instrument at the four MILL implementation sites as well as three additional comparison sites. A repeated measures MANCOVA will be conducted to assess the magnitude of the effectiveness of the MILL Model in increasing student learning outcomes in engineering competencies. Analysis of the comparative performance of the two groups will be undertaken to ascertain the learning gains attributable to implementation of the hands-on MILL Model curriculum. The pool of available psychometrically validated assessment items will also be expanded during the course of the project. This effort to assess the learning gains of a large and diverse set of manufacturing engineering students in an integrated hands-on curriculum will yield information critical to meeting industrial needs for appropriate skilled manufacturing engineers. The use of a validated standardized test incorporating a physical manipulative to evaluate attainment of hands-on engineering abilities will also help to inform the development of assessment tools for hands-on activities throughout the STEM disciplines.

缺乏实践经验是工程教育的主要能力差距之一。由韦恩州立大学领导的这个项目正在通过制造集成学习实验室（MILL）的持续工作来解决这个问题。工程教育的MILL模式使用基于团队的项目，在多个课程中协调，最终设计和制作功能产品。统一的主题是设计和制造的功能产品，学生从不同的角度在几个不同的课程反复遇到。MILL课程在实施的地点显示出极好的学习成果。在这个项目中，动手MILL模式将扩大到其他机构，包括马科姆社区学院，亨利福特社区学院和Prarie View A M，历史上的黑人学院和大学之一（HBCU）。评估方法开发，以衡量学生在MILL计划的学习收益将在这个扩大实施进行测试。关于学生在MILL型课程中的学习收获的结果，沿着一个独特的标准化评估，包括一个现实的物理操作，将为全国范围内的扩大MILL模型做好准备。该项目将展示一个灵活，有效，低成本和易于转移的制造工程课程模式，准备满足行业需求的多样化和熟练的劳动力。本项目将使用心理测量学验证的标准化测试来评估和验证目标动手能力的实现。这是对方案评价标准化测试的创新使用。这种方法可以记录实现特定目标的学习成果。通过比较干预组和对照非干预组在测试仪器上的表现，该项目将记录MILL模型干预带来的学习收益。该项目将在四个MILL实施地点以及另外三个比较地点部署这一工具。将进行重复测量MANCOVA，以评估MILL模型在提高学生工程能力学习成果方面的有效性。将对两组的比较表现进行分析，以确定实施实践MILL模式课程所带来的学习收益。在项目实施过程中，还将扩大可用的心理测量验证评估项目库。这一努力，以评估一个大的和不同的一套制造工程专业的学生在综合实践课程的学习成果，将产生关键的信息，以满足适当的熟练制造工程师的工业需求。 使用经过验证的标准化测试，结合物理操作来评估实践工程能力的实现，也将有助于为整个STEM学科的实践活动提供评估工具的开发。