The Critical Incident Technique: An Effective Tool for Gathering Experience from Practicing Engineers

Autor/inn/en	Hanson, James H.; Brophy, Patrick D.
Titel	The Critical Incident Technique: An Effective Tool for Gathering Experience from Practicing Engineers
Quelle	In: Advances in Engineering Education, 3 (2012) 1, (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1941-1766
Schlagwörter	Critical Incidents Method; Engineering; Engineering Education; Task Analysis; Cognitive Development; Learning Experience; Program Descriptions; Needs Assessment; Behavioral Objectives; Strategic Planning; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Data Interpretation; Interviews; Instructional Effectiveness; Training Methods; Educational Practices; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Maschinenbau; Ingenieurausbildung; Aufgabenanalyse; Kognitive Entwicklung; Lernerfahrung; Bedarfsermittlung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung; Data evaluation; Datenauswertung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Unterrichtserfolg; Didaktik; Trainingsmaßnahme; Bildungspraxis; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Not all knowledge and skills that educators want to pass to students exists yet in textbooks. Some still resides only in the experiences of practicing engineers (e.g., how engineers create new products, how designers identify errors in calculations). The critical incident technique, CIT, is an established method for cognitive task analysis. It is especially effective for accessing implicit knowledge which exists in a person's unconscious and is therefore not readily accessible. Such knowledge is often referred to as "experience". The five steps to the critical incident technique are 1) Identify your objectives, 2) Make plans and set specifications, 3) Collect the data, 4) Analyze the data, and 5) Interpret the data and disseminate the results. This manuscript presents detailed recommendations on how to conduct a CIT study; therefore, it can serve as a "how to" manual for educators who want to obtain experiences from practitioners in order to provide those experiences to students as knowledge and skills useful to their professional careers. This manuscript also includes details of an example application of CIT with lessons learned. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01