EIPECK: Assessing Educators' Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Engineering Integration in K-12
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
DOI
10.7771/2157-9288.1336
Publication Title
Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
51-68
Abstract
Global efforts are underway to include engineering in pre-college curricula. In the USA, this pursuit led to the inclusion of engineering content in the most recent version of the Next Generation Science Standards that guide K-12 science. As these standards become part of the K-12 curriculum, teachers face the challenge of gaining basic engineering literacy, while developing the associated inclusive pedagogies necessary to integrate engineering content into their classrooms. In this context, teacher preparation programs can benefit from easy-to-implement tools that measure preservice teachers' readiness to integrate engineering content in their future classrooms. This work describes the development and validation of an instrument to help assess educators' perceived levels of pedagogical content knowledge for engineering integration at single or multiple time points throughout their academic preparation. The proposed instrument can complement other assessment methods, such as classroom observations, interviews, and journal entries. Additionally, the instrument can be used to help discern the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs in preparing future teachers to integrate engineering.
Rights
© 2024 The Authors.
Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND) License.
Data Availability
Article states: "Due to the nature of this research, participants of this study did not agree for their data to be shared publicly, so supporting data are not available."
ORCID
0000-0003-4348-7798 (Pazos), 0000-0002-1453-2353 (Cima), 0000-0002-9339-7574 (Gutierrez), 0000-0002-8095-938X (Kaipa)
Original Publication Citation
Pazos, P., Cima Cohuo, F., Kidd, J., Gutierrez, K., Kaipa, K., & Ayala, O. (2023). EIPECK: Assessing educators' pedagogical content knowledge for engineering integration in K-12. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 13(2), 51-68, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1336
Repository Citation
Pazos, Pilar; Cohuo, Francisco Cima; Kidd, Jennifer; Gutierrez, Kristie; Kaipa, Krishnanand; and Ayala, Orlando, "EIPECK: Assessing Educators' Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Engineering Integration in K-12" (2023). Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications. 174.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/emse_fac_pubs/174
Comments
Alternate Article Title: EIPECK: Evaluación del Conocimiento Pedagógico para la Integración de la Ingeniería en la Enseñanza Primaria.