Competency of Guiding Teachers of Technology Competitions for Chinese College Students under the Global Engineering Education Accreditation

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Qi; Ding, Xin; Wang, Qiu-ping; Zhang, Yu-jie
Titel	Competency of Guiding Teachers of Technology Competitions for Chinese College Students under the Global Engineering Education Accreditation
Quelle	In: International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 33 (2023) 5, S.1819-1833 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhang, Qi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957 7572
DOI	10.1007/s10798-022-09796-5
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Students; Technology Education; Teachers; Competition; Engineering Education; Accreditation (Institutions); Structural Equation Models; Job Performance; Teacher Competencies; Geographic Location; Colleges; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Collegestudent; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Wettkampf; Ingenieurausbildung; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Lehrkunst; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule
Abstract	"Global Engineering Education Accreditation" (GEEA) is an internationally accepted quality assurance system for engineering education in universities, and technology competitions for college students are also considered important approaches to achieve the educational objectives and meet graduation requirements of GEEA in practice aspects. In this paper, the competency of guiding teachers of technology competitions for Chinese college students is evaluated through a case of "National Competition of Transportation Science and Technology for Students" (NACTranS). Firstly, 7 theoretical hypotheses of the modified "structural equation modeling" (SEM) for competency were developed by concentrating on some principles pertaining to the key concepts of GEEA. Secondly, competition results were set as the dependent variable and 3 dimensions of competition (topic selecting, works producing and team managing) were set as the independent variables under the modified SEM. Meanwhile, both administrative ranks and regional locations of universities where guiding teachers work were set as intervening vectors so as to explain the formation mechanisms of competency. Thirdly, a case study of NACTranS data from 68 universities in China's mainland was done through modified SEM calculating. The conclusions indicate that competency of guiding teachers is not only represented by 3 dimensions but also indirectly manipulated by 2 intervening vectors. According to the case calculating by modified SEM, the determinant of guiding teachers' performance in topic selecting is the administrative ranks of universities, whereas their performance in works producing is dictated by the regional locations of universities. Various improvements on the competency of guiding teachers can be carried out in schools of engineering in Chinese universities, such as sufficient academic communications, efficient industry-university-research cooperation and so on. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01