EER Community Resources
The list of resources below was compiled from suggestions provided by the EER community.
Writing Resources
American Educational Research Association. (2006). Standards for reporting on empirical social science research in AERA publications. Educational Researcher, 35(6), 33-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876756
Bem, D. J. (2004). Writing the empirical journal article. In J. M. Darley, M. P. Zanna, & H. L. Roediger (Eds). The complete academic: A career guide (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://psychology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/bemempirical.pdf
Conceptual Frameworks
Svinicki, M. D. (2010). A guidebook on conceptual frameworks for research in engineering education. http://www.dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files1/af66d923fb150b6c895b32655eb9b5ce.pdf
Methods
Baillie, C., & Douglas, E. P. (2014). Confusions and conventions: Qualitative research in engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 103(1), 1-7. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20031
Borrego, M., Douglas, E. P., & Amelink, C. T. (2009). Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methods in engineering education. Journal of Engineering education, 98(1), 53-66. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01005.x
Hjalmarson, M. A., & Moskal, B. (2018). Quality considerations in education research: expanding our understanding of quantitative evidence and arguments. Journal of Engineering Education, 107(2), 179-185. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20202
Kellam, N., & Cirell, A. M. (2018). Quality considerations in qualitative inquiry: Expanding our understandings for the broader dissemination of qualitative research. Journal of Engineering Education, 107(3), 355-361. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20227
Walther, J., Sochacka, N. W., Benson, L. C., Bumbaco, A. E., Kellam, N., Pawley, A. L., & Phillips, C. M. (2017). Qualitative research quality: A collaborative inquiry across multiple methodological perspectives. Journal of Engineering Education, 106(3), 398-430. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20170
Textbooks
Johri, A., & Olds, B. (Eds.). (2014). Cambridge handbook of engineering education research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-engineering-education-research/D2056F1ABBE32AEEB898BCAC611AC559
Dewar, J., Bennett, C., & Fisher, M. A. (2018). The scholarship of teaching and learning: A guide for scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. New York: Oxford University Press. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198821212.001.0001/oso-9780198821212
Loui, M. C., & Borrego, M. (2019). Engineering education research. In S. A. Fincher & A. V. Robins (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of computing education research (pp. 292-321). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://go.my.illinois.edu/LouiBorregoChapter or, for full text, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-computing-education-research/F8CFAF7B81A8F6BF5C663412BA0A943D
Faculty & Graduate Mentorship
Community Contributors
If you have a resource that you have found helpful or would like to contribute, please let us know!
Thanks to the following people for contributing to these resources:
2024: Julie Martin, Karin Jensen, Jenny Brown, Isabel Miller, Sindia Rivera-Jiménez, Jennifer Brown
Before 2024: Julie Martin, Kelly Cross, Karin Jensen, Isabel Miller, Deepthi Suresh, Eileen Johnson, Joe Mirabelli, Jeanne Sanders, and Michael loui