Initial Validity Evidence for a Survey of Skill and Attitude Development on Engineering Teams

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-23-2024

Abstract

This research paper discusses an emerging project that 1) seeks to gather validity evidence for a survey of engineering student teaming attitudes and skill development and 2) identifies what skills and attitudes engineering students develop over time and to what degree. Given teamwork's importance in engineering education and practice, teamwork is essential for engineering students to learn. As we have explored the teamwork literature, we have identified that teamwork, as the discipline has defined it, lacks specificity, thus leaving open the criterion for assessment. This project emerged as an opportunity to both “measure” and precisely define teamwork skills and attitudes. In the summer/fall of 2023, we developed a pilot survey of engineering teaming attitudes and skills and administered it at two mid-Atlantic institutions. Our pilot administration led to a sample size of n=606 with representation across years, discipline, race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic background, (dis)ability and neurodivergence identities, military background, and sexual orientation. Our validity work focuses on factors that we have newly adapted to our context or engineering altogether. This paper focuses on exploratory factor analysis. We used parallel analysis to determine the number of factors present across our items, followed by exploratory factor analysis to identify those factors and their makeup. In this paper, we will share our present findings and our future plans.

Identifier

85202059073 (Scopus)

Publication Title

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

e-ISSN

21535965

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