An exploratory study of drawings as a tool to evaluate student understanding of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus
Lydia Horne,
Amanda Manzanares,
Nurcan Atalan-Helicke
et al.
Abstract:As future decision-makers, students must develop interdisciplinary, systems thinking skills to make effective management decisions; however, systems thinking remains challenging for many students. Here, we use the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus as a framework to examine how drawings can help students cultivate systems thinking skills. Drawings can be tools to make implicit mental models of systems connections explicit for instructors to better comprehend student learning. Our goal was to understand how drawing … Show more
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