PECASE: A Quality Framework for Interpretive Engineering Education Research

这笔工程学教育研究启动补助金旨在将工程学的全面质量管理(TQM)运动的要素与将在项目期间开发的评估定性研究的框架结合起来。有必要能够判断定性研究的结果；该项目将有助于实现这一目标。此外，拥有一个清晰描述的框架，从工程师熟悉的语言中汲取，可能有助于使定性研究结果更容易在研究团体之间转换。这个项目的更广泛的意义和重要性主要在于建立研究网络和能力，以及能够更广泛地交流研究结果。建议的框架，如果被广泛接受，可能会在研究生教育中发挥作用。此外，改进定性研究技术将有助于研究工程学中代表性不足的群体的股权问题。该项目与NSF的战略目标相重叠，即通过投资于新兴的工程新领域或转移现有领域来改造边界。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过支持创新学习系统的发展而实现的。

This engineering education research initiation grant seeks to combine elements of the total quality management (TQM) movement from engineering with a framework for evaluating qualitative research that will be developed during the project. There is a need to be able to judge the results of qualitative research; this project will help achieve this goal. Additionally having a clearly delineated framework that draws from language familiar to engineers may help make qualitative research results easier to translate between research communities.The broader significance and importance of this project lie primarily in building networks and capacity for research as well as being able to more broadly communicate research results. The proposed framework, if widely accepted, may serve in the education of graduate students. Additionally improving qualitative research techniques will help in studies of equity issues with under-represented groups in engineering. 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 supporting the development of innovative learning systems.