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Journal Article
Tapping Into the Power of the Crowd to Ensure Safe Drinking Water for All
By Jill Nugent
Journal Article
By Erika Wright, Timothy Rhue II, Mary Dussault, and Brandon Lawton
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ understanding of the word technology. The probe is designed to find out if students are aware that they live in a world composed almost entirely of technological objects, systems, and proc...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about what is and what is not technology. The probe is designed to find out if students have a broad understanding of technology as defined in the Framework (NRC 2012).. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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What’s the Purpose of Technology?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the purpose of technology. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that technologies are developed to meet human needs and preserve the environment. ...
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 technologies change. The probe is designed to see if students are aware of the way nearly all technologies change over time. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a block diagram, and to determine whether they recognize that technologies include processes as well as ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine if students are able to envision how a system is made up of parts and can do something that the parts alone cannot do....
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students recognize that all systems are nested within and interconnected with larger systems. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about engineers. The probe is designed to reveal how students think about who is an engineer and the kind of work engineers do. ...
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 can become an engineer. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that anyone can become an engineer as long as they study science and math, have a willing...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit student’ ideas about engineers and teamwork. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that different types of engineers and other professionals must work as members of a team to accomplish...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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Working Together to Save Lives
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the role of different professions in contributing to the solution of a problem that benefits society, such as the development of a lifesaving device. The probe is designed to d...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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How Are Science and Engineering Similar?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the ways in which science and engineering are similar. The probe is designed to reveal whether students understand that science and engineering share many similarities includin...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
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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