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International Journal of Technology and Design Education OnlineFirst articles

18.04.2024

Correlation analysis between sub-element of technological thinking disposition and computational thinking of gifted students in South Korea

The purpose of this study is to derive a correlation between the technological thinking disposition and the computational thinking ability of gifted students in Korea. The correlation between each element was analyzed by looking at the …

verfasst von:
Yong-Woon Choi, In-gyu Go, Yeong-Jae Gil

18.04.2024

Empowering teachers’ professional development with e-textiles supported educational STEAM projects

The study aimed to investigate the dynamics of e-textile-supported STEAM activities, specifically focusing on the design and development process of e-textile projects. A professional development (PD) program with seven hands-on and design-based …

verfasst von:
Mustafa Sat, Kursat Cagiltay

18.04.2024

A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio

Architectural design representations comprise physical (models, drawings) and digital media (3D models). Multimodal combinations of physical and digital representations are commonplace in professional contexts such as design reviews or building …

verfasst von:
Alejandro Veliz Reyes

13.04.2024

The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students

STEM, the integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects is a popular topic as schools grapple with how to best prepare students for an ever-evolving society. As societal and technological challenges emerge, design …

verfasst von:
Dina Thomason, Pei-Ling Hsu

Open Access 23.03.2024

“Documentation is now so ingrained in me”: how students interpret and value documentation in creative learning domains

Within creative domains in studio- and project-based education, documentation is often central to demonstrating outcomes, process, and progress. Despite much prior work into the instructional practices, technologies, and tools that support …

verfasst von:
Yinmiao Li, Xiaoyang Zhou, Daragh Byrne, Marti Louw

18.03.2024

The impact of STEM curriculum on students’ engineering design abilities and attitudes toward STEM

While it has been recognized that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education requires an interdisciplinary approach, integrating multiple subjects in a meaningful way remains challenging for teachers. This study aimed to …

verfasst von:
Meng-Fei Cheng, Yu-Heng Lo, Chi-Ho Cheng

15.03.2024

Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of AI Literacy Education for Young Children

Educators and researchers have increasingly recognized the importance of AI literacy. Despite the growing body of AI literacy literature, the challenges and enablers for introducing AI literacy for kindergarten children is still underexplored and …

verfasst von:
Jiahong Su

15.03.2024

Teaching requirements: Can a short lecture make a real difference?

This study explores the influence that an educational intervention has on students generating requirements for a design task. An experiment was performed in a fourth-year mechanical engineering design course by giving the participants a design …

verfasst von:
Maria Vittoria Elena, Joshua D. Summers

11.03.2024

Exploring the impact of the direct experience of architecture precedents: a study of master student teams

Design teams often rely on precedents, but the impact of using the direct experience of a precedent on design behavior requires further investigation. To explore this impact, fifteen teams of master students of architecture participated in two …

verfasst von:
Mohammadali Ashrafganjouei, Hamid Nadimi

Open Access 28.02.2024

Online education in design disciplines: factors influencing the interactive experience of group learning

There has been much previous research into online group learning, but they have not been aware of or focused on the challenges that design disciplines encounter in terms of interaction when moving to online delivery. This qualitative study …

verfasst von:
Lei Mao, Francisco Queiroz

Open Access 28.02.2024

Co-making the future: crafting tomorrow with insights and perspectives from the China-U.S. young maker competition

This research paper investigates the intersection of the maker movement and educational innovation, using the China-U.S. Young Maker Competition as a foundational example. It examines how maker education, fueled by hands-on learning and a …

verfasst von:
Wei Liu, Zhiyong Fu, Yancong Zhu, Yin Li, Yuanbo Sun, Xinhui Hong, Yanru Li, Min Liu

26.02.2024

Relationships among students’ hands-on making self-efficacy, incremental belief of intelligence, help-seeking attitudes, and continuance intention to participate in a STEAM contest

STEAM contests play a pivotal role in maintaining students’ interest and motivation in STEAM education. Finding factors that are related to students’ continuance intention (CI) to participate in STEAM contests is important for promoting STEAM …

verfasst von:
Xiaohong Liu, Dan Yang, Jon-Chao Hong, Jianjun Gu, Haining You

14.02.2024

Organizing metaphors for design methods

Design students must develop competence in a wide range of areas in order to be successful in their future practice. Increasingly, knowledge of design methods is used to frame both a designer’s repertoire and their overall facility as a designer.

verfasst von:
Anne C. Pivonka, Laura Makary, Colin M. Gray

11.02.2024

Realities vs expectations: children’s perception and imagination of AI

Based on Folk theory, Media Equation, and AI literacy research, the study constructed an interview outline and selected 72 students in 4th and 5th grade in three primary schools located in the Minhang and Putuo districts of Shanghai (two in the …

verfasst von:
Lu Cai

01.02.2024

The roles of empathy and motivation in creativity in design thinking

Creativity is an important skill in the 21st century, and design thinking has been proposed as a methodology for fostering creativity. Design creativity involves two non-rational aspects: motivation and empathy. However, little is known about how …

verfasst von:
Xinyu Li, Juanjuan Chen, Hongjie Fu

Open Access 30.01.2024

A conceptual model for educating design thinking dispositions

Design thinking dispositions are essential for students to understand why design thinking knowledge should be applied to perform specific tasks. However, few studies are focused on teaching design thinking dispositions. This study proposes a …

verfasst von:
Nguyen Hoang Thuan, Pedro Antunes

Open Access 27.01.2024

Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge

Spatial thinking is ubiquitous in design. Design education across all age groups encompasses a range of spatially challenging activities, such as forming and modifying mental representations of ideas, and visualizing the scenarios of design …

verfasst von:
Caiwei Zhu, Remke Klapwijk, Miroslava Silva-Ordaz, Jeroen Spandaw, Marc J. de Vries

18.01.2024

Critiquing contemporary interior design students

This article presents findings from an instructional-based inquiry, aimed to evaluate the critiquing characteristics of an accredited interior design program, and to optimize the experience of studio-based feedback practices for contemporary …

verfasst von:
Jody Nyboer

17.01.2024

The relationship between the teacher’s approach to teaching and the student’s attitude toward technology in Croatian primary schools

This paper explores the possible relationships between students’ positive attitudes and interest toward technology and teachers’ approaches. The study was conducted with a sample of students (N = 2312) from 5 to 8th grade of primary school in …

verfasst von:
Damir Purković, Stjepan Kovačević

16.01.2024

A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning

In design courses, reviewing how others have solved design problems or completed projects is common practice and often encouraged by educators. Using student work as examples can provide context for assessment criteria and help students approach …

verfasst von:
Scott Thorne, Nathan Mentzer, Scott Bartholomew, Greg J. Strimel