Miring’s Inductive Content Analysis for Providing Technological Literacy Standards for University

Zohreh Bagherzadeh, Narges Keshtiaray, Alireza Assareh, Payam Najafi

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In fact, technology development and technological innovations are the heart of knowledge-based economy and definitely the future role of engineers will be increasingly highlighted in societies. The importance of engineers has found a special place in the competitive strength of world economies and it is natural that the knowledge-based economy requires specific engineering with technological thinking. Particularly today that technology in addition to meeting economic, defense and social needs resolving unemployment dilemma leads to the efficiency of processes, leadership in global energy markets, the role of technology is dependent on reviewing the engineering concept, and based on which reviewing the engineering education process. Thus, providing technological literacy standards for the integration of engineering education curriculum which leads to job placement, employment and entrepreneurship in this course can be a suitable solution in this regard. Mirinig’s inductive content analysis was used in this research to develop standards. In the next step, 20 experts in engineering education were asked to write important factors in training a creative engineer. Then their concepts and writings were coded based on five technological literacy standards of engineering education curriculum in this study and the frequency of these five standards was extracted according to these concepts and the coefficients of these indicators according to experts’ views were determined based on Shannon entropy. According to Shannon entropy analysis the importance coefficient of technological standards in engineering education are respectively as follows: (1) Human management, (2) Knowledge management, (3) The integration of science, technology, arts, mathematics and economics, (4) Meaningful teaching, (5) Early education.

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