Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Gail Goldberg

students, teachers, and others engaged in STEM education andthe focus of an NSF PRIME grant to examine the validity and reliability of the EDPPSR (NationalScience Foundation, 2011). In the years since the EDPPSR evolved, exposure to the rubric via the Innovation Portal has greatlyincreased. Not only is the rubric being used to assess the portfolios submitted by thousands ofstudents for PLTW’s Engineering Design and Development (EDD) capstone course, but students inother instructional contexts as well—from middle school through college—are using the rubric-basedframework to organize entries and artifacts that demonstrate their engagement in the engineeringdesign process. (Live, to-the-second data on users of the framework is displayed on https