EAGER Collaborative Proposal: Developing Engineering Faculty as Engineering Education Researchers Through Mentorship

EAGER 合作提案：通过指导将工程教师发展为工程教育研究人员

• 批准号: 2318849
• 负责人: Karin Jensen
• 金额: $ 20.32万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Collaborative; Proposal; Developing; Engineering

This exploratory project investigates how engineering faculty learn to become engineering education researchers through mentoring relationships via the NSF-funded Research Initiation in Engineering Formation grants. Findings from this research are used to develop training materials and inform a networking event intended to pair engineering faculty interested in engineering education research with potential mentors at different institutions. Training engineering faculty in engineering education research expands the number of faculty adopting research-based instructional practices in their courses, and results in improved teaching, advising, programming, and policy-making by closing the research-to-practice gap.While previous mentorship models have focused on the content of engineering education as a field, this work identifies effective strategies from successful mentoring relationships that incorporate the social and cultural components of becoming an engineering education researcher. By conducting qualitative interviews of engineering faculty and engineering education researchers mentee-mentor pairs, the study the study develops a conceptual model of the formation of engineering education researchers' identity. This model clarifies how researchers undergo a paradigm shift and potential career pivot to expand their expertise in a related, but distinct, discipline of engineering education. This novel approach provides important information to enhance existing training materials and to develop additional training opportunities for engineering faculty who are interested in conducting engineering education research. Additionally, the model has implications for understanding job retraining and approaches for engaging faculty in lifelong learning.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个探索性项目调查了工程教师如何通过 NSF 资助的工程形成研究启动基金的指导关系来学习成为工程教育研究人员。这项研究的结果用于开发培训材料，并为一个网络活动提供信息，该活动旨在将对工程教育研究感兴趣的工程教师与不同机构的潜在导师配对。 对工程教师进行工程教育研究培训，可以扩大在课程中采用基于研究的教学实践的教师数量，并通过缩小研究与实践之间的差距，改善教学、建议、规划和政策制定。这项工作侧重于工程教育作为一个领域的内容，从成功的指导关系中确定了有效的策略，其中纳入了成为工程教育研究员的社会和文化组成部分。通过对工程教师和工程教育研究人员导师-导师对进行定性访谈，该研究开发了工程教育研究人员身份形成的概念模型。该模型阐明了研究人员如何经历范式转变和潜在的职业转向，以扩展他们在相关但独特的工程教育学科中的专业知识。这种新颖的方法提供了重要信息，可以增强现有的培训材料，并为有兴趣进行工程教育研究的工程教师开发额外的培训机会。此外，该模型对于理解工作再培训和让教师参与终身学习的方法具有重要意义。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Mid-career transitions into engineering education research via structured mentorship opportunities: Barriers and perceptions

通过结构化指导机会从职业中期过渡到工程教育研究：障碍和看法

• DOI: 10.1080/22054952.2023.2217046
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: Australasian Journal of Engineering Education
• 作者: Mirabelli, Joseph F.;Barlow, Allyson J.;Sanders, Jeanne L.;Ko, Evan;Jensen, Karin;Cross, Kelly J.
• 通讯作者: Cross, Kelly J.