Collaborative Research: Developing a Concept Inventory for Engineering Design Graphics

协作研究：开发工程设计图形概念清单

• 批准号: 1822428
• 负责人: Sheryl Sorby
• 金额: $ 14.14万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-09 至 2018-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Developing; Concept; Inventory

Engineering graphics is one of the largest enrollment courses within engineering and engineering technology; however, much of engineering graphics education today teaches the "CAD tool of the day" rather than the fundamental concepts. This project will conduct educational research in the development of a concept inventory for engineering graphics concepts that can be used by STEM educators to help a wide spectrum of students. Concept Inventories have been developed for many fundamental courses in the STEM fields. Most notably, the Force Concept Inventory developed in the early 1980s, sparked a reform in physics education that focused more on student understanding of fundamental concepts rather than rote memorization of facts. Hence Concept Inventories enable faculty to design their courses with a focus on the fundamentals and provide them with a validated means of assessing student understanding of these basic concepts. Since students enroll in engineering graphics within high schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions, this project holds great potential to improve the learning of fundamental concepts in engineering graphics for many students. In a prior NSF project DUE-1044269, the research team used a Delphi Study to identify the fundamental concepts in engineering graphics. This project will develop its inventory based on those previously identified fundamental concepts. The instrument will be developed through a rigorous research and development process and will fill a gap in engineering and technology education. The project results will be disseminated broadly and will be targeted to faculty from a wide array of institutions, including high schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges. The project results will be long lasting within the engineering graphics education community of scholars.

工程图形是工程和工程技术中最大的入学课程之一。但是，如今的许多工程图形教育都教授“当今的CAD工具”，而不是基本的概念。该项目将在开发工程图形概念的概念清单中进行教育研究，STEM教育者可以将其用于帮助各种各样的学生。已经为STEM领域的许多基本课程开发了概念清单。最值得注意的是，1980年代初期开发的力量概念清单引发了物理教育的改革，该改革更加集中于学生对基本概念的理解，而不是对事实的死记硬背。因此，概念清单使教师能够设计其课程，重点关注基本面，并为他们提供评估学生对这些基本概念的理解的验证方法。由于学生在高中，社区大学和四年制机构中招收工程图形，因此该项目具有改善许多学生工程图形中基本概念的巨大潜力。在先前的NSF项目Dududy-1044269中，研究团队使用Delphi研究来识别工程图形中的基本概念。该项目将根据先前确定的基本概念来开发其库存。该工具将通过严格的研发过程开发，并将填补工程和技术教育方面的空白。该项目的结果将广泛传播，并将针对各种各样的机构，包括高中，社区学院和四年制学院。该项目的结果将在学者工程图形教育社区中持久。