Browsing Articles - Technology Education Research Group (TERG) by Author "Canty, Donal"
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Agendas, influences, and capability: perspectives on practice in design and technology education.
Doyle, Andrew; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal; Buckley, Jeffrey (Springer, 2019)A philosophical shift in policy now situates the development of technological capability as the focus of Irish technology education. Internationally, the effectiveness of curricular reform in the discipline has previously ... -
An exploration into the criteria used in assessing design activities with adaptive comparative judgment in technology education.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Canty, Donal; Seery, Niall (Taylor & Francis, 2020-08)The use of design assignments for teaching, learning, and assessment is considered a signature of technology education. However, there are difficulties in the valid and reliable assessment of features of quality within ... -
Framing the constructive alignment of design within technology subjects in general education.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Gumaelius, Lena; Canty, Donal; Doyle, Andrew; Pears, Arnold (Springer, 2020-05-27)Design is core element of general technology education internationally. While there is a degree of contention with regards to its treatment, there is general consensus that the inclusion of design in some form is important, ... -
A heuristic framework of spatial ability: a review and synthesis of spatial factor literature to support its translation into STEM education.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal (Springer, 2018)An abundance of empirical evidence exists identifying a significant correlation between spatial ability and educational performance particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Despite this ... -
Heuristics and CAD modelling: an examination of student behaviour during problem solving episodes within CAD modelling activities.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal (Springer, 2018)Design activities typically involve and culminate in the creation of models representative of new ideas and conceptions. The format is often dictated by the specific discipline, with ideas in design and technology education ... -
Implicit theories of intelligence in STEM education: perspectives through the lens of technology education students.
Buckley, Jeffrey; O'Connor, Adrian; Seery, Niall; Hyland, Tomás; Canty, Donal (Springer, 2019)The educational significance of eliciting students’ implicit theories of intelligence is well established with the majority of this work focussing on theories regarding entity and incremental beliefs. However, a second ... -
Integrating assessment and design activity in engineering education: a proposed synthesis of adaptive comparative judgement and the CDIO framework
Hyland, Tomás; Gordon, Seamus; Canty, Donal; Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall (ASEE, 2018)One of the leading frameworks in engineering education specifically associated with design based competencies is the CDIO framework. This has been incorporated internationally into many institutions offering engineering ... -
Integrating learners into the assessment process using adaptive comparative judgement with an ipsative approach of identifying competence based gains relative to student ability levels.
Seery, Niall; Buckley, Jeffrey; Delahunty, Thomas; Canty, Donal (Springer, 2018)Educational assessment has profound effects on the nature and depth of learning that students engage in. Typically there are two core types discussed within the pertinent literature; criterion and norm referenced assessment. ... -
Investigating the use of spatial reasoning strategies in geometric problem solving.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal (Springer, 2019)A core aim of contemporary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is the development of robust problem-solving skills. This can be achieved by fostering both discipline knowledge expertise and ... -
Reconceptualising PCK research in D&T education: proposing a methodological framework to investigate enacted practice.
Doyle, Andrew; Seery, Niall; Gumaelius, Lena; Canty, Donal; Hartell, Eva (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.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal (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.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Canty, Donal; White, David; Seery, Niall; Campbell, Mark (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, ... -
Visualization, inductive reasoning, and memory span as components of fluid intelligence: implications for technology education.
Buckley, Jeffrey; Seery, Niall; Canty, Donal; Gumaelius, Lena (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. ...