San Antonio, Texas
June 10, 2012
June 10, 2012
June 13, 2012
2153-5965
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
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25.1333.1 - 25.1333.16
10.18260/1-2--22090
https://peer.asee.org/22090
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Tamecia R. Jones is a doctoral student studying assessment in K-12 formal and informal spaces at the Purdue University School of Engineering Education. She has a B.S. in biomedical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and a M.A. in learning, design, and technology from Stanford University. She is a certified middle school math and science teacher and has created STEM outreach programs for a variety of K-12 populations.
Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. Purzer has journal publications on instrument development, teacher professional development, and K-12 engineering education. Her research focuses on assessing constructs such as innovation, information literacy, and collaborative learning.
Using Cultural Technology Behaviors to Teach Documentation in a High School Engineering and Design Course This work‐in‐progress is the first phase of a research project that will impact assessment in K‐12 engineering education. Our hypothesis is that taking advantage of the texting behavior of students and the texting language can improve documentation and communication in engineering and design courses. A coding language has the potential to address the challenge of assessing working knowledge and conceptual knowledge, and provide opportunity for increased reflection. This paper describes the first phase of the project, a four‐week summer course that teaches science and engineering concepts in the context of design to rising high school seniors and the pedagogical strategies implemented in the class. Weekly engineering themes that include specific concepts in civil and electrical engineering set the stage for students to practice the design process in order to solve a problem. The course imitates a design studio with studio critiques, brainstorm sessions, team assignments, and impending deadlines. The instructor uses various forms of media ‐ design journals, design storyboards, and video ‐ to teach reflection and document student understanding and individual student design rationale. Portfolios of student work contain these three types of media as well as tests and quizzes. Using a case study framework and content analysis methodology, student portfolios will be analyzed to see if there are trends in documentation. The design journals, design storyboards, and video footage from final presentations are compared to assess the benefits of using different media (paper, images, and video) for capturing understanding and improving the reflection and documentation practices of students. Results will be presented. The goal of this data is to generate a symbolic graphical language that can be used as a pedagogical strategy and tool to improve documentation of the design rationale in high school science design or engineering courses. The outcome of this phase is the development and presentation of symbolic graphical language that can be piloted in classrooms to test its ability to improve documentation and communication between students and instructors.
Jones, T. R., & Cardella, M. E., & Purzer, S. (2012, June), The Reality Show of a High School Science, Engineering, and Design Course: Observing Documentation and Communication Patterns to Inform Pedagogy and Assessment Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22090
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