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The role of iteration in the design processes of middle school students

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Mark Sherman,

Fred Martin,

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C&C '11: Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

Pages 391 - 392

https://doi.org/10.1145/2069618.2069711

Published: 03 November 2011 Publication History

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This project studied the manner in which 7th and 8th grade students approach design problems, focusing on testing and iteration behaviors. Students were asked to solve design problems and create generalized processes for solving them. Observations of the students were analyzed using degree of design success with length and speed of iterations. The time spent exploring the problem before starting testing and iteration was the most significant factor to the success of the student's design. Future work exploring this property of design is needed to understand the causes of it.

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C&C '11: Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

November 2011

492 pages

ISBN:9781450308205

DOI:10.1145/2069618

General Chair:
Ashok K. Goel
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Fox Harrell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Brian Magerko
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Yukari Nagai
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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Jane Prophet
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

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Sherman MCutts QSimon BDorn B(2014)User models of reasoning and understanding in app inventorProceedings of the tenth annual conference on International computing education research10.1145/2632320.2632340(171-172)Online publication date: 28-Jul-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2632320.2632340

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