A Model for Predicting and Assessing the Programmatic Impact of Student Success in Engineering

预测和评估学生工程成功的计划影响的模型

• 批准号: 0416113
• 负责人: PK Imbrie
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0416113&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Model; Predicting; Assessing; Programmatic; Impact

This grant to Purdue University seeks two years of NSF funding to develop a novel and systematic approach to better understand the direct and indirect relationships among freshman engineering student attributes and outcomes. With this knowledge, the college will implement processes that: a) enable faculty and advisors to give more informed guidance to incoming freshmen about their course selections; b) foster the continuous improvement of first-year engineering experiences; c) provide a means to operationalize the definition of student success to include additional features (i.e., something more than simply looking at GPA and persistence in engineering); and d) facilitate our ability to investigate differences in a model of predictors and outcomes for underrepresented student groups (e.g., gender, and ethnicity), leading to more meaningful advising for these students. This project will develop a comprehensive evaluation process that will enable engineering faculty and advisors to better assess: the cognitive and noncognitive characteristics of incoming freshman to more accurately place students into the most appropriate introductory chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics courses. In addition, the project to use survey items (self-concepts and expectations), prior academic performance (high school academic record), and student assessment of their achievement to understand the direct and indirect relationships among freshman student attributes and outcomes in order to provide the foundation for continuous improvement in our first-year engineering program, as well as provide a bases by which we can measure whether a student has had a successful first-year experience. The current model for engineering accreditation calls for the development and implementation of a system of ongoing evaluation that demonstrates achievement of programs educational objectives, in part, through the assessment of program outcomes. However, to date, no effort has been made to relate these outcomes back to a student's starting point in the higher education system. We believe the model proposed herein will serve in that capacity both at Purdue University and engineering institutions across the country.

给普渡大学的这项赠款寻求两年的NSF资金来开发一种新颖而系统的方法，以更好地了解新生工程学生属性和成果之间的直接和间接关系。有了这些知识，学院将实施：a）使教师和顾问能够为新生的课程选择提供更多知识的指导； b）促进一年级工程经验的持续改进； c）提供一种能够操作学生成功定义的方法，以包含其他功能（即，不仅仅是看GPA和工程中的持久性）； d）促进我们研究预测因素和成果不足的学生群体（例如性别和种族）的差异的能力，从而为这些学生提供了更有意义的建议。该项目将开发一个全面的评估过程，该过程将使工程学院和顾问更好地评估：即将到来的新生的认知和非认知特征，以更准确地使学生进入最合适的化学，工程，数学和物理课程。此外，该项目使用调查项目（自我概念和期望），先前的学术表现（高中学术记录）以及学生对他们的成就进行评估，以了解新生学生属性和成果之间的直接和间接关系，以为我们的一年级工程计划的持续改进提供基础，并通过该基础来提供我们的一年级经验，并能够通过该基础提供一年级的经验。当前的工程认证模型要求开发和实施正在进行的评估体系，该系统通过评估计划成果，部分地证明了计划的教育目标。但是，迄今为止，尚无努力将这些结果与高等教育系统中学生的起点联系起来。 我们认为，这里提出的模型将以普渡大学和全国工程机构的身份服务。