This paper addresses two aspects of integrating mathematics education with engineering education that may address persistence of engineering majors (and STEM majors more broadly): an emphasis on modeling as a vehicle for more authentic learning activity (Niss et al. 2007 ), and the need for measures that can support academic units’ efforts to collect local data about student attainment of program goals. In this paper, we contribute: (1) a measure for modeling self-efficacy and its corresponding design process; (2) a measure for modeling competency and its corresponding design process; (3) a preliminary analysis of the relationship between modeling competency and self-efficacy. We argue that such instruments address a genuine need of engineering departments (as well as STEM education researchers) to have a means for collecting local data on students’ modeling self-efficacy and competency.

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工科和其他STEM大学生数学建模的双重措施

本文探讨了将数学教育与工程学教育相结合的两个方面，这可能解决工程学专业（以及更广泛的STEM专业）的持久性：强调将模型作为更真实的学习活动的工具（Niss等，2007）。用于支持学术部门努力收集有关学生达到计划目标的本地数据的措施。在本文中，我们做出了贡献：（1）一种对自我效能进行建模的方法及其相应的设计过程；（2）建模能力的度量及其相应的设计过程；（3）初步分析了建模能力与自我效能之间的关系。