TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation/modification cycles in junior high students' technological problem solving
AU - Mioduser, David
AU - Kipperman, Dov
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Technological problem-solving knowledge and skills have become primary components of almost any curricular endeavor in technology education for the last decades. However, our understanding of the way students approach such tasks and generate solutions is still incomplete. The main goal of this study was to trace closely Grade 7 students' work while engaged in design tasks within an unstructured learning environment. We report on a specific fragment of the process, namely on the evaluation/modification cycles which the students went through after completing the construction of the first version of a solution. The study focused on: (a) identifying the conceptual constituents of these cycles; (b) the students' decisions with reference to the original design goals in the course of these cycles; and (c) the formulation of a general reflection/decision/action model characterizing these cycles.
AB - Technological problem-solving knowledge and skills have become primary components of almost any curricular endeavor in technology education for the last decades. However, our understanding of the way students approach such tasks and generate solutions is still incomplete. The main goal of this study was to trace closely Grade 7 students' work while engaged in design tasks within an unstructured learning environment. We report on a specific fragment of the process, namely on the evaluation/modification cycles which the students went through after completing the construction of the first version of a solution. The study focused on: (a) identifying the conceptual constituents of these cycles; (b) the students' decisions with reference to the original design goals in the course of these cycles; and (c) the formulation of a general reflection/decision/action model characterizing these cycles.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036275545&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1015256928387
DO - 10.1023/A:1015256928387
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AN - SCOPUS:0036275545
SN - 0957-7572
VL - 12
SP - 123
EP - 138
JO - International Journal of Technology and Design Education
JF - International Journal of Technology and Design Education
IS - 2
ER -