Development and Assessment of Science Content and Support Skill Trajectories in Engineering Education

跨学科(99)这个项目寻求评估学生的能力和成长，以回应在许多内容和技能领域的暴露和指导。选择学习的内容和技能领域是高级概念完全理解所依赖的基石。这些积木往往是工程教育中的主题元素，并在给定的课程中形成轨迹。该项目使用教学前和教学后评估来衡量学生在特定技能领域的能力，每次学生在两年的本科工程课程中遇到这项技能时都会进行评估。这项纵向研究还旨在确定学生在传统教学之外使用的策略，以发展关键领域的能力。这些数据还被分析，以确定常见的失败模式和误解，进而可以用来改进教学内容和交付，并设计具体的干预措施，以提高学生的能力。在整个项目中使用的相关知识和方法正在免费传播给感兴趣的工科学校。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project seeks to assess student competency and growth in response to exposure and instruction in a number of content and skill areas. The content and skill areas selected for study are those building blocks upon which advanced concepts depend for their complete understanding. These building blocks tend to be thematic elements in engineering education and form trajectories through a given curriculum. This project measures student competency in a specific skill area using pre-instruction and post-instruction assessments each time a student encounters the skill as they progress through two years of an undergraduate engineering curriculum. This longitudinal study is also designed to identify the strategies students use outside of traditional instruction to develop competency in key areas. The data are also being analyzed to determine common failure modes and misconceptions which in turn can be used to improve instructional content and delivery and to design specific interventions to improve student competency. The rubrics and methodologies used throughout this project are being freely disseminated to interested engineering schools.