Browsing Articles - Technology Education Research Group (TERG) by Title
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The need to consider the predictive capacity of intelligence and its malleability within design and technology education research.
(Springer, 2020-05-14)General intelligence is a fundamental human capacity with significant educational implications. However, it is often not considered in educational research despite substantial evidence illustrating its association with ... -
Operationalising pedagogical content knowledge research in technology education: considerations for methodological approaches to exploring enacted practice.
(BERA, 2019-08)Like many areas of curricula internationally, technology education has encountered difficulties in achieving continuity between the rhetoric of prevailing policy and the reality of enacted practices. In technology ... -
Outcome analyses of educational interventions: a case study of the Swedish “Boost of Technology” intervention.
(Springer, 2018)In Sweden, there have been multiple large scale interventions to support compulsory school teachers generally and within specific subjects. Due to the costs associated with such interventions it is critical that interim ... -
Parametric pedagogy: integrating parametric CAD in Irish post-primary schools.
(2011)Technology education in Irish post-primary schools is undergoing significant change. In recent years the syllabi of all technology-related subjects have been revised. A new subject, Design and Communication Graphics, ... -
Reconceptualising PCK research in D&T education: proposing a methodological framework to investigate enacted practice.
(Springer, 2019)Since first conceived, the concept of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has attracted much attention. Despite being lauded by educationalists as the unique knowledge base of teachers, research on the concept over the ... -
Spatial cognition in engineering education: developing a spatial ability framework to support the translation of theory into practice.
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2019)A substantial degree of empirical evidence has illustrated the correlation between spatial skills and performance in engineering education. This evidence has been foundational in the construction of educational interventions ... -
Spatial working memory and neural efficiency in mental rotations: an insight from pupillometry.
(ASEE, 2018-05)Spatial ability, particularly the cognitive capacity for mental rotations, is a critical component of human cognition. Proficiency with mental rotation tasks is linked with educational performance in various Science, ... -
The understated value of freehand sketching in technology education.
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2009)As education plays such a vital role in economic competitiveness, it is no surprise that the focus for many governments is to invest in educational initiatives. Innovation in pedagogy, refined curriculum and much research ... -
Visualization, inductive reasoning, and memory span as components of fluid intelligence: implications for technology education.
(Elsevier, 2018)The philosophy and epistemology of technology education are relatively unique as the subject largely focusses on acquiring task specific relevant knowledge rather than having an explicit epistemological discipline boundary. ...