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

考察创业教育教学法对女性 STEM 发展的影响

• 批准号: 1531533
• 负责人: Aileen Huang-Saad
• 金额: $ 46.38万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1531533&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Examining; Effect; Entrepreneurial; Education; Pedagogy

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.

创业创新的重要性越来越被人们所认识。最近，高等教育机构已经认识到自己有责任培养一支更具创业精神的劳动力队伍，并开始将创业教育拓宽到商业基础、案例研究和初创公司等传统商学院模式之外。在此过程中，开发了新的创业教学方法，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女性的参与和参与还有待研究。在许多情况下，这些方法涉及竞争和基于问题、以团队为导向的学习的结合。这些方法的整合可能会以不同的方式影响学生，并且可能会因性别、种族、文化或社会经济阶层而产生不同的影响。教育项目依赖于学生自我选择进入这些竞争激烈的非传统学习环境。这笔赠款的目的是探索这些新的学习环境对学生参与度的影响，特别是对女性而言。随着国家努力寻找方法来培养面向 21 世纪的多元化、创新型劳动力队伍，这项研究的结果至关重要。这些结果将帮助高等教育机构了解女性如何选择参与创业教育项目以及项目如何影响女性毕业后参与创新。该项目将进行混合方法研究，以检验创业教育学与女性毕业后参与创业教育和创新之间的关系。这项研究将利用密歇根大学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）谁是选择参与或不参与特定创业教育机会的学生？这些选择因性别而异？ 2) 为什么学生选择参与或不参与特定的创业教育机会，这些选择因性别有何不同？； 3) 特定创业教育活动对学生有哪些好处？这些好处因性别而异？这包括学生如何看待自己是否适合创业项目以及他们对该项目的总体看法； 4) 特定的创业教育机会如何影响往届学生当前的工作，包括创业技能和心态的发展，以及影响因性别而异？利用机构学习分析数据和大规模校友调查来进行有针对性的深度访谈的独特能力将提供迄今为止工程创业教育对性别影响的最全面的了解。