Collaborative Research: Assessing Technical Entrepreneurship Learning in Engineering Education

合作研究：评估工程教育中的技术创业学习

• 批准号: 0817309
• 负责人: Mary Besterfield-Sacre
• 金额: $ 23.66万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0817309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Assessing; Technical; Entrepreneurship

Engineering - Other (59)The project, a collaborative effort between the University of Pittsburgh and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), is building on previous work to investigate the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship in engineering programs and defining ways to measure changes in entrepreneurial knowledge and thinking. The investigators are conducting a nationwide study to determine the status of entrepreneurship education in 330 engineering schools across the U.S. and to identify similar types of approaches using a clustering algorithm. Specifically, they are collecting information on programs and courses in entrepreneurship, other extracurricular learning opportunities and resources for entrepreneurship, and the individuals catalyzing entrepreneurship education in each context. With this data they are selecting a representative sample of 30 to 35 schools and performing an in-depth cross-institutional analysis of students' learning in upper-level engineering courses that address entrepreneurship and related topics. In doing this, they are administering two assessment instruments that have been developed under separate funding: a knowledge inventory that measures self-reported familiarity with entrepreneurial concepts and terms and an entrepreneurial "mindset" rubric that appraises students' written responses to engineering-based entrepreneurship cases. Through statistical and modeling efforts, they are mapping student outcomes directly to teaching practices and institutional characteristics. With these results, they are developing guidelines for best practices in teaching, program development, and assessment. Under the leadership of an independent evaluator, the project is using expert analysis of the instruments and protocols, data modeling, and workshop participation and survey data to conduct formative and summative evaluation. Results are being disseminated through influential faculty and entrepreneurial leaders in engineering using NCIIA's network, through journal publications, through conference presentations for engineering education and entrepreneurial audiences, and through faculty workshops. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the results and the instruments and protocols, especially through faculty workshops and the NCIIA network, and by helping to meet a need in industry for engineers with entrepreneurial skills.

工程 - 其他（59）该项目是匹兹堡大学与国家大学发明家和创新者联盟（NCIIA）之间的合作努力，它正在基于以前的工作，以调查工程计划中的企业家教学和学习的教学，并定义了衡量企业家知识和思维的变化的方法。 研究人员正在进行一项全国性的研究，以确定美国330所工程学校的企业家教育状况，并使用聚类算法确定类似类型的方法。具体来说，他们正在收集有关企业家计划和课程，其他课外学习机会和企业家资源的信息，以及在每种情况下催化企业家教育的个人。 通过这些数据，他们正在选择30至35所学校的代表性样本，并对学生在企业家精神和相关主题的高级工程课程中对学生学习的深入跨机构分析。在此过程中，他们正在管理两种在单独的资金中开发的评估工具：一种知识清单，衡量了自我报告的熟悉企业家概念和术语的熟悉程度，以及一种企业家精神的“思维方式”标准，该企业家评估了学生对基于工程的企业家案件的书面回应。通过统计和建模工作，他们将学生的成绩直接映射到教学实践和机构特征。通过这些结果，他们正在制定有关教学，计划开发和评估最佳实践的准则。在独立评估者的领导下，该项目使用了对工具和协议，数据建模以及研讨会参与和调查数据的专家分析，以进行形成性和总结性评估。 通过使用NCIIA网络，期刊出版物，工程教育和企业家受众的会议演讲以及通过教师研讨会，通过使用NCIIA网络的有影响力的教师和企业家领导者以及通过教师研讨会来传播结果。 更广泛的影响包括传播结果以及工具和协议，尤其是通过教师研讨会和NCIIA网络的传播，以及通过帮助满足具有创业技能的工程师的行业需求。