RPPmodel, this partnership might best be described as a Community of Practice in which equal valueis placed on in-service teachers, Ph.D. students in CS and engineering majors, and students with ahistory of robotics learning experiences in elementary schools, all supported by the staff,infrastructure, and grants of the K-12 STEM Center. External independent assessment has beenprovided by STEM Program Evaluation, Assessment, and Research (SPEAR) consultants withsubstantial experience in evaluating education interventions such as BOTS.Called Building Opportunities with Teachers in Schools (BOTS), the collaborators aimed todesign a low-cost, scalable solution that focuses on improving the teachers’ confidence inteaching computer science through
myresearch design that explores the intersection of educational diversity efforts, the arts, and engineering history. Myunique framework requires some explanation to communicate across disciplinary understandings about howknowledge is generated [3], [4]. For example, in my methods section below, I describe my literature and imagesearch methods because my framework does not differentiate distinct phases of the research; rather, I acknowledgethe messiness of my approach by showing the process of producing new knowledge as an iterative act, from whichpreviously undetected perspectives can emerge. In arts-based research [52] and culturally responsive methodologies[5], transparency builds trustworthiness. Trustworthiness is a criterion for evaluating
component, termed the hiddencurriculum, pertains to perspectives and processes that are both outside of, and rooted in, theformal curriculum. The hidden curriculum inadvertently conveys to students what is important inthe educational community. This paper employs a hidden curriculum perspective to explore therole and value of ethics and societal impacts (termed ESI) in engineering education. As part of alarger study on the ESI education of undergraduate and graduate students, this paper exploresESI through a hidden curriculum lens using an ex post facto design and mixed-methodsapproach. Individuals who teach engineering and computing students participated in a surveywhere they reported their own ESI education practices and their perceptions of the
AC 2012-4696: MINORS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING TECHNOLOG-ICAL AND ENGINEERING LITERACY FOR NON-ENGINEERSDr. John Krupczak, Hope College John Krupczak is professor of engineering, Hope College, Holland, Mich.; CASEE Senior Fellow (2008- 2010); Past Chair, ASEE Technological Literacy Division, and Past Chair, ASEE Liberal Education Divi- sion.Dr. Mani Mina, Iowa State UniversityDr. Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University Robert J. Gustafson, P.E., Ph.D., is Honda Professor for engineering education and Director of the Engi- neering Education Innovation Center in the College of Engineering and a professor of food, agricultural, and biological engineering at the Ohio State University. He has previously served at Ohio
. Such experiential transfer is likely differentthan knowledge transfer across disciplinary domains and may be enhanced by supporting thedevelopment of goal-based concepts. Furthermore, although this characteristic is oftendecomposed into discrete educational outcomes such as teamwork or communication, definingand assessing outcomes necessarily emphasizes skill within a domain rather than synthesis acrossdomains. Thus outcomes-based assessment may be counter-productive to developing soughtafter characteristics of graduates.Introduction and BackgroundThis paper examines one of the foundations of modern engineering education, defining andmeasuring educational outcomes, through the lens of philosophy, or “truth estimation” [1]. Thegoal of this