Naive designers’ information use during the design process in a low-resource classroom

dc.contributor.authorBlom, Nicolaas Willem
dc.contributor.authorHaupt, Maria Margaretha Catharina (Grietjie)
dc.contributor.authorFraser, William John
dc.contributor.emailnicolaas.blom@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-07T09:35:00Z
dc.date.available2018-09-07T09:35:00Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractFacilitating the design process in low-resource Technology classrooms has become increasingly challenging in the 21st century. This research focuses on the types of information sources used during learners’ design processes. We examine the information sources that nine South African Grade 9 learners from a low-resource school used while they were engaged in a mechanical systems and control design task. They worked in groups of three to design a machine to lift logs from the ground onto a truck. We utilised a Think Aloud Protocol Study to collect concurrent verbal, visual and temporal data. The results indicate that Grade 9 design teams were predominantly engaged in problem solving activities by using mostly external sources of information during the early phases of the design process. If designing is the backbone methodology of Technology education, attention should be given to the information sources that learners use during designing.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentScience, Mathematics and Technology Educationen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.ejmste.comen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBlom N., Haupt G. & Fraser W. 2018, 'Naive designers’ information use during the design process in a low-resource classroom', Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 2563-2586.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1305-8215 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1305-8223 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.29333/ejmste/90091
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/66477
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherModestumen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 by the authors; licensee Modestum Ltd., UK. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectCognitive phasesen_ZA
dc.subjectDesign cognitionen_ZA
dc.subjectInformation sourcesen_ZA
dc.subjectLow-resource classroomsen_ZA
dc.subjectTechnology educationen_ZA
dc.titleNaive designers’ information use during the design process in a low-resource classroomen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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