Development and implementation of quantitative methods to study instructional practices in engineering programs

• Autores: Sarah E. Zappe, Kirsten S. Hochstedt, Dan Merson, Lindsey Schrott, Thomas A. Litzinger
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 32, no. 5 (Parte A), 2016, 1959 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Governmentagencies andprofessional organizations are calling for changes in engineering, scienceand math education. Inresponse to these calls for change, engineering education scholars are undertaking a variety of investigations of changewithin engineering education, including studies of instructional practices and the factors that influence choice ofinstructional practices. This paper provides a detailed description of the development and implementation of threequantitative methods to characterize instructional practices within engineering undergraduate programs. The threemethods are: analysis of course syllabi, a student survey, and a faculty survey. For each method, the development andimplementation processes are described including major challenges that were encountered and how they were addressed.Data are presented for one program in order to illustrate the types of results that are derived from each method and thetypes of conclusions that can be drawn from the combined data set. The overall goal of the paper is to provide sufficientdetail to allow other engineering programs to adapt, or adopt, the methods to undertake studies of instructional practices.The coding scheme for the syllabi analysis and copies of the items used in the student and faculty surveys are included inappendices of the paper.