Examining the Effect of Entrepreneurial Education Pedagogy on the Development of Women in STEM

创业创新的重要性日益深入人心。最近，高等教育机构已经认识到他们在创造更具创业精神的劳动力方面的责任，并开始扩大创业教育，超越传统的商业基础、案例研究和创业公司的商学院模式。在这样做的过程中，已经开发了教授创业精神的新方法，鼓励学生在课堂内外发挥更积极的作用。创业教育的这些方面如何影响妇女的参与和参与还有待研究。在许多情况下，这些方法包括竞争和基于问题的、团队导向的学习的结合。这些方法的整合可能以不同的方式影响学生，并且可能根据性别、种族、文化或社会经济阶层产生不同的影响。教育项目依靠学生自我选择进入这些竞争激烈的非传统学习环境。这项资助的目的是探索这些新的学习环境对学生参与度的影响，特别是对女性的影响。这项研究的结果是至关重要的，因为国家正在寻找方法来培养21世纪多样化、创新的劳动力。这些结果将有助于高等教育机构了解女性如何选择参与创业教育项目，以及这些项目如何影响女性在毕业后参与创新。本项目将采用混合方法研究创业教学法与女性毕业后参与创业教育和创新之间的关系。这项研究将利用UM学习分析学生的学习数据。四个研究问题将推动这项工作：1)哪些学生选择参与或不参与创业教育机会，这些选择在性别上有何不同？2)学生为什么会选择或不选择创业教育机会，这些选择在性别上有何不同？3)特定的创业教育活动对学生有什么好处，这些好处在性别上有什么不同？这包括学生如何看待自己与创业项目的契合度，以及他们对项目的总体看法；4)特定的创业教育机会如何影响以前学生的当前工作，包括创业技能和思维方式的发展，以及影响如何因性别而异？利用机构学习分析数据和大规模校友调查的独特能力，为有针对性的深度访谈提供信息，将为迄今为止工程创业教育对性别的影响提供最全面的视角。

The importance of entrepreneurship and innovation is becoming more widely recognized. Recently, higher education institutions have recognized their responsibility in creating a more entrepreneurially minded workforce and have begun to broaden entrepreneurship education beyond the traditional business school model of business fundamentals, case studies, and start-­up companies. In doing so, new approaches to teaching entrepreneurship have been developed, encouraging students to take a more active role in and outside of the classroom. How these aspects of entrepreneurship education influence women's engagement and involvement has yet to be studied. In many instances, these approaches involve a combination of competition and problem-based, team-­oriented learning. Integration of these approaches may influence students in different ways, and there may be differential effects based on gender, race, culture or socioeconomic class. Educational programs are relying on students to self-­select into these highly competitive non-­traditional learning environments. The purpose of this grant is to explore the influence of these new learning environments on student engagement, particularly for women. Results from this research are critical as the nation moves to find ways to develop a diverse, innovative workforce for the 21st century. These results will help higher education institutions understand how women choose to engage in entrepreneurship educational programs and how programs influence women to become involved in innovation after graduation.This project will engage in a mixed methods study to examine relationships between entrepreneurship pedagogy and women's engagement in entrepreneurship education and innovation post-­graduation. This study will leverage UM Learning Analytics student learning data. Four research questions will drive the work: 1) Who are the students that choose to engage, or not, in particular entrepreneurship educational opportunities and how do these choices differ with gender?; 2) Why do students choose to engage, or not, in particular entrepreneurship educational opportunities, and how do these choices differ with gender?; 3) What are the benefits to students of particular entrepreneurship education activities, and how do these benefits differ with gender? This includes how students perceive their fit within the entrepreneurship program as well as their general perceptions of the program; 4) How do particular entrepreneurship educational opportunities impact the current work of former students, including development of entrepreneurial skills and mindsets, and how do impacts differ with gender? The unique ability to use institutional learning analytics data and large scale alumni surveys to inform targeted in-­depth interviews will offer the most comprehensive look at the impact of engineering entrepreneurship education on gender to date.