Research Initiation: The Impact of Engineering Education Guilds - Understanding Vision, Quantifying Propagation, and Situating Among Other Faculty Resources

研究启动：工程教育协会的影响 - 理解愿景、量化传播以及在其他教师资源中的定位

• 批准号: 1927268
• 负责人: Kaitlin Mallouk
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Rowan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-15 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1927268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Impact; Engineering; Education

The National Science Foundation and other organizations have spent, and will continue to spend, millions of dollars each year supporting educational innovation projects to broaden participation, improve student learning, and positively impact undergraduate engineering students. However, for various reasons, many of these educational innovations are never implemented beyond the classrooms they were initially designed for. In an attempt to improve the likelihood that educational innovations will be widely used, this research examines ways in which educators develop, share, and implement new ways of teaching. In particular, this project focuses on educational innovations that are shared through "engineering education guilds," which are large groups of faculty who are organized around a specific innovation (for example, the use of reflection in engineering education). The goals of this research are to understand (1) how the innovations championed by two well-established guilds were designed to be easily adopted by educators and (2) what resources educators use when adopting new ways of teaching, including the guild's role in that adoption. If these goals are met, designers and users of educational innovations will be better informed and supported in educational change development and adoption, ultimately leading to an increase in the adoption of research-based classroom practices.To achieve the above goals, this research employs multiple case study and multi-method approaches that combine qualitative methods (interviews and open-ended survey response analysis) and quantitative methods (network analysis). Interviews with guild leaders will result in within- and cross-case reports that provide a rich description of the pedagogical innovation championed by each guild and an assessment of the extent to which each guild is following a dissemination or propagation paradigm. Guild leader responses will be characterized using the Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument, which assesses innovations for the effectiveness of their propagation intentions. Surveys of the guilds' primary and further-removed participants will result in an understanding of how widely adopted the innovation is and the construction of the resource networks used by faculty to implement new pedagogical innovations. By combining two established concepts (the dissemination/propagation paradigms and network analysis) in a unique way, the understanding of how organizational intent can influence adoption of innovative engineering education pedagogies/concepts will be advanced. This understanding is useful not only in engineering education, where researchers are continuously developing and studying new best practices in training the next generation of engineers, but also in other fields where educational innovations and research are seeking to broaden participation and improve the development of learners.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国国家科学基金会和其他组织已经花费，并将继续花费，每年数百万美元支持教育创新项目，以扩大参与，提高学生的学习，并积极影响本科工程专业的学生。然而，由于各种原因，这些教育创新中的许多从未在最初设计的教室之外实施。为了提高教育创新被广泛应用的可能性，本研究探讨了教育工作者开发、分享和实施新的教学方法的方式。特别是，该项目侧重于通过“工程教育协会”共享的教育创新，“工程教育协会”是围绕特定创新（例如，在工程教育中使用反思）组织的大型教师团体。本研究的目的是了解（1）两个成熟的行业协会所倡导的创新是如何被设计成易于被教育工作者采用的，以及（2）教育工作者在采用新的教学方式时使用了哪些资源，包括行业协会在采用中的作用。如果这些目标得以实现，教育创新的设计者和使用者将在教育变革开发和采用方面得到更好的信息和支持，最终导致基于研究的课堂实践的采用增加，为了实现上述目标本研究采用多案例研究和多方法研究方法，联合收割机结合定性方法（访谈和开放式调查答复分析）和定量方法（网络分析）。与行会领导人的访谈将导致内和跨案例报告，提供了一个丰富的描述，每个行会倡导的教学创新和评估的程度，每个行会是以下的传播或传播模式。行会领导人的反应将使用持续采用评估工具，评估其传播意图的有效性的创新设计的特点。调查的公会的主要和进一步删除的参与者将导致如何广泛采用的创新和教师使用的资源网络的建设，以实施新的教学创新的理解。通过以独特的方式结合两个既定的概念（传播/传播范式和网络分析），组织意图如何影响采用创新的工程教育体系/概念的理解将被推进。这种理解不仅在工程教育中是有用的，研究人员正在不断开发和研究新的最佳实践，以培养下一代工程师，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估来支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Adoption of Pedagogical Innovations: Social Networks of Engineering Education Guilds

采用教学创新：工程教育协会的社交网络

• DOI: 10.3390/educsci13111102
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Education Sciences
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Riley, Darby;Mallouk, Kaitlin;Faber, Courtney;Coso Strong, Alexandra
• 通讯作者: Coso Strong, Alexandra

How Engineering Education Guilds are Expanding our Understanding of Propagation in Engineering Education

工程教育协会如何扩大我们对工程教育传播的理解

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of STEM education
• 作者: Mallouk, Kaitlin E.;Strong, Alexandra C.;Riley, Darby R.;Faber, Courtney J.
• 通讯作者: Faber, Courtney J.

Adoption of Pedagogical Innovations: Resource Networks of Engineering Education Guilds

采用教学创新：工程教育协会的资源网络

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Frontiers in education
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Riley, D.R.;Mallouk, K.E.;Strong, A.C.;Faber, C.J.
• 通讯作者: Faber, C.J.

Engineering Education Guilds: Understanding Their Vision for Innovation

工程教育协会：了解他们的创新愿景

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: American Society for Engineering Education 128th Annual Conference and Exposition
• 作者: Mallouk, Kaitlin E.;Riley, Darby R.;Strong, Alexandra C.;Faber, Courtney J.
• 通讯作者: Faber, Courtney J.