VALIDATING MEASURES OF FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS: STEPS TOWARD IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION

摘要

In recent years, engineering education has undergone a marked increase in research devoted to understanding student academic outcomes and persistence. Researchers have demonstrated that although many engineering educators believe high attrition rates among engineering students are evidence that weaker students are being weeded-out, this conception is flawed. Rather, the grade distributions of students who drop out are statistically similar to those who persist, and many students who drop out of the sciences report doing so due to poor instruction. Accordingly, this line of research has sparked an interest in improving the quality of education engineering students receive by improving instruction through increased understanding of student learning and motivation.