Board # 100 : Research Design, Data Collection, and Assessment Methods for an Integrated STEM Education Model (Work in Progress)

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design and cognition seeking to better understand how young students learn design and how design improves STEM education. He joined a team of researchers to create a program to improve learning STEM in elementary grades, and the team was awarded an NSF Math and Science partnership called Science Learning Through Engineering Design (SLED). Kelley is currently the PI on an NSF I-Test project called Teachers and Researchers Advancing Integrated Lessons in STEM (TRAILS). TRAILS prepares science and technology education teachers to integrate STEM content through biomimicry inspired engineering design within the context of entomology.Dr. Kelley the program coordinator for the engineering/technology teacher education program at Purdue. Dr. Kelley is also leading the second year Design Thinking course for the Purdue Polytechnic Institute. The course is a collaboration between the Polytechnic and Anthropology to integrate ethnographic approaches by developing technological and engineering design human centered design solutions. Mr. Euisuk Sung, Purdue UniversityEuisuk Sung is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University. He is majoring Engineering and Technology Teacher Education. He has computer science degree and worked as a computer software developer for three years. then he served as an engineering and technology educator in high school for 9 years in South Korea. Currently he is working in NSF Funded project, titled TRAILS. His research interests are design cognition, design process model, and all about STEM education. Mr. Jongseong Choi, Purdue UniversityJongseong Choi is a Ph.D. student in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, working with Dr. Todd Kelley as a graduate assistant. He has been involved in the field of STEM education since he worked for data collection and analysis in SLED (Science Learning through Engineering Design) NSF-funded project. He is currently in charge of data analysis in TRAILS (Teachers and Researchers Advancing Integrated Lessons in STEM) NSF-funded project. His research focused on evaluating & improving STEM lessons via developing specified curriculum. Individually, his research includes video processing, autonomous monitoring system, computer vision, and robotics. Prior, he worked on dynamic behavior of reinforced ballistic materials and applications, collaborated with U.S Department of Justice.c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Research Design, Data Collection, and Assessment Methods of an Integrated STEM Education Model (Work in Progress)The goal of this research is to assess the effectiveness of an integrated STEM education model. The study is being conducted under a three-year NSF-ITEST funded project (award #1513248), Teachers and Researchers Advancing Integrated Lessons in STEM (TRAILS). This research incorporates engineering design as a STEM subject integrator and scientific inquiry to provide an authentic learning context for promoting 21 st century skills and connections in STEM learning. In addition, the study seeks to assess effective strateg...

An introduction to functions and variables in technology education, in a STEM-centred context at the elementary level

“…In addition to this, Laksmiwati et al (2020) argued that in the implementation of STEM, the TDP becomes very significant in the development of students' thinking and problem-solving in STEM activities. In accordance with the above, many initiatives have been taken to analyse the implementation of STEM activities in classrooms, and the results of those studies showed that most of the activities were connected to the TDP (Knowles et al, 2017;McFadden & Roehrig, 2019).…”