Measuring the Effects of Precollege Engineering on the Experience of Engineering Students

衡量大学预科工程对工科学生体验的影响

• 批准号: 1550961
• 负责人: Noah Salzman
• 金额: $ 14.69万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 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: 2015-05-16 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550961&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Measuring; Effects; Precollege; Engineering; Experience

This engineering education research project seeks to explore how pre-college engineering programs affect those students who enroll into undergraduate engineering degree programs. The project will use both qualitative and quantitative methods, with the results from the qualitative component used to develop a survey instrument. This instrument then can be used to understand the impact such programs have at a national scale.The broader significance and importance of this project will help engineering administrators, instructors and designers of undergraduate and pre-college curricula adapt to students' changing needs and abilities. Examining the demographics of the participants will demonstrate who has access to or is taking advantage of pre-college engineering programs, and if the effects of pre-college engineering vary across different demographic groups. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers by making investments that lead to emerging new fields of engineering, or shifting existing fields. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.

该工程教育研究项目旨在探索大学预科工程课程如何影响那些就读本科工程学位课程的学生。 该项目将使用定性和定量方法，定性部分的结果用于开发调查工具。 然后，该工具可用于了解此类项目在全国范围内的影响。该项目的更广泛意义和重要性将帮助本科生和预科课程的工程管理人员、讲师和设计者适应学生不断变化的需求和能力。检查参与者的人口统计数据将表明谁可以访问或正在利用大学预科工程课程，以及大学预科工程的效果是否因不同人口群体而异。 该项目与 NSF 的战略目标重叠，即通过投资引导新的工程领域或改变现有领域来改变前沿。 此外，NSF 的社会创新目标是通过为教育政策和实践提供信息，创造对社会有用的成果和研究来实现的。