From a philosophical viewpoint, technological design is about connecting what is desirable
with what is technically possible. Technology itself plays a major role in design processes …

Abstract Design feedback is an essential pedagogical tool that can help young novice
designers navigate divergent and convergent paths while designing. However, design …

The present study focuses on assessing first-year architecture students' creative skills by
examining the changes in their cognitive skills due to curricular intervention and revealing …

In technology education, assessment is challenging and underdeveloped as it is a nascent
practice and teachers do not have a well-defined subject tradition to lean on when …

This article reports on a 6th-grade society-centred design activity, where students designed
a new sustainable town with the goal of at least 50% renewable energy sources. The activity …

A fundamental characteristic of being human is an innate desire to make things to be how
we want them to be, to change things, improve things, and make our world one that meets …

Designing is an inherently creative process in which divergent (generative) and convergent
(evaluative) thinking drive the creation and development of a design. Nevertheless …

Technology learners require formative feedback from their teachers to aid them in structuring
and solving design problems. Without such feedback, learners often do not explore sub …

This paper describes the Phase II results of qualitative research involving design teams of
primary school second-graders divided as follows: designers (D)–the creators of a solution; …

This study focuses on first-year Pre-service Engineering Graphics and Design teachers
(PSEGDTs), as studies on the spatial-visual abilities of PSEGDTs is absent in mainstream …