Implementing Technology-Based Reflection to Assess Elementary Students' Design Thinking and Conceptual Understanding in an Engineering Design Challenge

• In Event: Assessment and Technology

Abstract

This mixed methods study analyzed written and video reflections of second grade students who participated in an engineering design challenge for evidence of empathy, ideation, and conceptual understanding. Findings from the study suggest that video reflection can be an effective way to assess students’ conceptual understanding. The findings also suggest there is a need for explicitly teaching design thinking in the engineering design process.

Authors

• Sarah (Katie) K. Guffey, University of South Alabama

• Joe Gaston, University of South Alabama

• Angela Doucet Rand, University of South Alabama