Conference proceeding
Work in Progress - Studying Design Cognition to Improve Design Education
Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, pp S3G-1-S3G-3
01 Jan 2010
Abstract
This paper presents results from the first phase of a longitudinal study of design cognition. The project examines how engineering students develop design competencies over time by applying a task-independent approach to verbal protocol analysis based on the function-behavior-structure ontology. This analysis will be used to evaluate the effects of education on design cognition by following students in two curricula across three years (sophomore to senior). A large study pool from both programs completed spatial reasoning tests to determine overall population characteristics. A subset of this pool is now participating in verbal protocol studies in which students work in pairs to respond to a design scenario. This paper reports results of the spatial reasoning tests as well as preliminary results from the first set of protocol studies.
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- Title
- Work in Progress - Studying Design Cognition to Improve Design Education
- Creators
- Christopher B. Williams - Virginia TechJohn Gero - Institute for Advanced StudyMarie C. Paretti - Virginia TechYoon Lee - Virginia Tech
- Publication Details
- Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, pp S3G-1-S3G-3
- Series
- Frontiers in Education Conference
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000287083200258
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-78751480785
- Other Identifier
- 991022156308604721