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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about creativity in engineering. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students think that creativity is an important part of engineering. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the use of evidence and reasoning to support a claim. The probe is designed to see if students apply systematic methods of reasoning from evidence and controlled experimentatio...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about using experimentation to solve a problem. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that (1) solving a problem in baking is considered engineering and (2) planned expe...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the importance of both engineering and science for creating technology. The probe is designed to determine if students recognize that working in the field of rocketry requires ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an engineering design process. The probe is designed to show how students think of engineering design as a logical sequence. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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How Do Engineers Solve Problems?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use an engineering design process to solve problems. The probe includes some common misconceptions about engineering design, and is designed to reveal whether stu...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ initial response to an ill-defined problematic situation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that in a problem situation, there is sometimes a more important proble...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about who needs to be consulted when solving a problem (the client). The probe is designed to reveal the extent to which students recognize that the needs of a number of individuals ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how to approach a problem. The probe is designed to gain insight into how students think about an engineering design process (EDP) and the kinds of problems that it can be used...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about criteria and constraints. The probe is designed to identify how students determine the criteria and constraints of a problem and whether one is more difficult to identify than ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about researching a problem. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students are aware of the need to learn as much as possible about how others have solved a problem...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about brainstorming. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students understand the norms of good teamwork during the brainstorming process. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use designs from nature. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that designs from nature provide creative ideas for solving problems. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about trade-offs. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that trade-offs involve sacrificing one or more things in favor of another. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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What Is a Product’s Life Cycle?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the life cycle of a product. The probe is designed to see how students apply the concept of life cycle analysis to determine the impact of a product on the environment. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel