What a systematic literature review tells us about transportation engineering education
Young, R. K.; Bernhardt, Kristen Sanford; Hurwitz, D. S.; Turochy, R. E.
Engineering education research has evolved considerably over the last several decades and has
revealed much about effective teaching practices for engineering. There is some concern that the
level of adoption of these effective teaching practices across the engineering programs is
relatively low and that meaningful assessment of student learning using innovative practices is
rare. One reason for this may be a lack of meaningful dialogue about these practices at a
discipline specific level, creating a disconnect between engineering education researchers and the
larger group of education practitioners. A systematic literature review is a method for exploring a
large amount of published material to expose underlying trends. This paper uses the subdiscipline
of Transportation Engineering to illustrate the use of a systematic literature review as a
catalyst for improving the dialogue on the adoption of more effective teaching practices and the
assessment of student learning using these practices. This paper discusses the methodology for
performing a systematic literature review, highlights some of the case study findings in the
context of how these findings can be used to identify next steps for instigating transformative
change in the field of transportation engineering education, and makes a case for the use of
systematic literature reviews in other areas of engineering.
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