Encouraging Innovative Pedagogy through Long-Term Faculty Development Teams

这一工程教育研究项目旨在扩大概念清单在电气工程课程中作为形成性评估的使用。该项目将这种形成性评估技术的专家聚集在一起，创建了一个“内容驱动的评估指南”，在该项目的第二阶段，将帮助其他教员在他们的课堂上采用形成性评估。评估指南是项目的成果，可能有助于在工程项目中进一步推广这种评估方法。该项目还将评估与在工程课程中采用形成性评估有关的因素，以深入了解与采用或不采用经过验证的评估方法有关的因素。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性将是创建一个在至少五所大学使用概念清单进行形成性评估的专业人员网络。将利用几个电子图书馆广泛传播以内容为导向的评估指南，以进一步鼓励使用概念清单。该指南可能有助于在其他工程学科中采用概念清单。

This engineering education research project seeks to extend the use of concept inventories as formative assessment in electrical engineering classes. The project brings together experts in this formative evaluation technique to create a "content-driven assessment guide" that will, in the second phase of the project, help other faculty adopt formative assessment into their classrooms. The assessment guide is a deliverable of the project and may serve to further spread this method of assessment in engineering programs. The project also will evaluate factors related to the adoption of formative assessment in engineering courses to provide insight into the factors related to adoption or non-adoption of proven assessment methods.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to create a network of faculty who have expertise in formative assessment using concept inventories across at least five universities. The content-driven assessment guide will be broadly disseminated using several electronic libraries to further stimulate use of concept inventories. The guide may serve to help adoption of concept inventories in other engineering disciplines.