Assessing engineering knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for research and program evaluation purposes
Book Chapter
Cardella, ME, Salzman, N, Purzer, Ş et al. (2014). Assessing engineering knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for research and program evaluation purposes
. 331-342.
Cardella, ME, Salzman, N, Purzer, Ş et al. (2014). Assessing engineering knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors for research and program evaluation purposes
. 331-342.
Quality assessment is critical to engineering education research and program evaluation. This chapter provides an overview of approaches to assessing different facets of engineering in relationship to pre-college education. Assessment efforts can focus on the knowledge that learners acquire, attitudes that facilitate engineering learning, and behaviors that we want the learner to adopt. In all cases, it is critical that the instrument development approaches are grounded in theory and evidence-driven to support the validity of inferences to be made.
