The Y1 curriculum's engineering design goals were too extensive for an integrated project¶

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Evidence · 1 study · design r3 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The design team concluded that the Y1 engineering design goals, while perhaps appropriate for a single-discipline curriculum, were too extensive for an integrated project. → Debra Bernstein 2022

Evidence¶

Debra Bernstein 2022¶

Debra Bernstein, Gillian Puttick, Kristen Wendell, Fayette Shaw, Ethan Danahy, Michael Cassidy. (2022). Designing biomimetic robots: iterative development of an integrated technology design curriculum. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10061-0

q2 · i? · design · r3

Analysis of the Y1 ScoutRoach focal group's work led the design team to this conclusion; the group needed targeted teacher support to meet the engineering design goals, and another student created its program.

"it became clear to the design team that while the curriculum’s engineering design goals were perhaps appropriate for a single-discipline curriculum, they were too extensive for an integrated project."

Discussion¶

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• Engineering team converged earlier than other teams, concluding prototyping two minutes before the time limit — related
• In Year 1, an open-ended biomimetic robot design task led to a wide range of implementation outcomes, with some groups not completing the task or not integrating biology — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Narrowing the design task in Y2 to a digging robot with targeted biology resources supported students in completing structure–function analyses and biomimetic designs — related