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Measuring Undergraduate Student Perceptions Of The Impact Of Project Lead The Way, Noah Salzman, Eric L. Mann, Matthew Ohland
Measuring Undergraduate Student Perceptions Of The Impact Of Project Lead The Way, Noah Salzman, Eric L. Mann, Matthew Ohland
School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series
A survey was distributed to the entire undergraduate student body at a large public university on students’ experiences in Project Lead The Way, a popular middle school and high school technology and engineering program. The survey included demographic questions including academic major, questions on which PLTW classes the students took in high school, and Likert-type ratings of those experiences.Of the responses to the survey (n=575), slightly fewer than half (n=252) indicated that they had participated in PLTW classes in high school. Approximately half of the respondents were majoring in engineering, one quarter in engineering technology, and the rest were distributed …