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Category Archives: Research
Dissertation Conclusion
Conclusion Development and gender were not significant factors in determining the EDP or the success of designs in this study with the exception of executive functions such as causal reasoning, which, in particular, showed some evidence of an age related … Continue reading
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Dissertation Research Teaser – 7 Key Factors in LEGO Robotic Open Ended Challenges
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How To Make An Activity Timeline in EXCEL (Revised)
How do you produce a timeline of recurring activity types easily using EXCEL? I had some trouble getting EXCEL to do this so I am sharing my technique here. I use this in my research to characterize the engineering design … Continue reading
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Started Dissertation Research
I have started filming for my dissertation research. It feels like a big step forward with so much leading up to this: 13 courses, pilot study, comps, dissertation proposal, and so much reading! I will be filming 6 second grade … Continue reading
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Creativity and Elementary Engineering
In the theoretical framework of a new book called Engaging Young Engineers: Teaching Problem Solving Skills Through STEM (Stone-Macdonald, Wendell, Douglass, Love, & Hyson, 2015), the authors posit that there are 5 kinds of thinking developed by teaching problem solving via STEM for early … Continue reading
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PHD – Bit of a Break
I passed my dissertation proposal defense in June. The proposal consisted of the first 4 chapters of my dissertation. These are Problem Statement, Literature Review, Theoretical Frameworks, and Methodology. These chapters may have to change a bit depending of what … Continue reading
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IRB Approval
“You have approval from the College of Education Human Subjects Review Board and may begin your research.” I successfully defended my dissertation proposal last week and received Institutional Review Board approval yesterday. I will be starting videotaping of students doing … Continue reading
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The Power of Wireless Projector Connection
This is a real incident from a study I just completed that compared teacher use of technology with and without wireless projection systems. I found that these systems changed the spatial arrangements in the classroom as well as the reach … Continue reading
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Robotics Quick Update
Sorry I have not been posting much. I spent a lot of time this summer working on my “comps” papers for my PhD. This involved a robotics literature review and a write up of my pilot study, where I examined … Continue reading
Timeline
I want to plot kid’s engineering design process cycles but don’t know how to get EXCEL to combine events of the same type on the same line. For the example below, I want the 2 PLAN events to be on … Continue reading
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