Development and Validation of the Engineering Design Metacognitive Questionnaire

Abstract

Before coming to Utah State, Dr. Lawanto taught and held several administrative positions at one large private university in Indonesia. He has developed and delivered numerous international workshops on student-centered learning and online learning-related topics during his service. Dr. Lawanto's research interests include cognition, learning, and instruction, and online learning.

Fostering Belonging through an Undergraduate Summer Internship: A Community of Practice Model for Engineering Research Education

“…And they must do so in collaboration with others, communicating successfully with diverse stakeholders in formal and informal settings 2 . Finally, they must cultivate the ability to reflect on the quality of their innovation and communication efforts 3 .…”

“…Many scholars consider metacognition a critical engineering practice and have recommended fostering metacognition for engineering design process and team management activities 3 .…”

“…Further, communicating has been shown to facilitate metacognition 36 . Moreover, designing is interdependent with running tests and analyzing results because how a problem is initially framed impacts subsequent decisions and actions 3,7 .…”

Assessment and Analysis of Use of Self-regulated Learning in Laboratory-based Extracurricular Undergraduate/First-year Graduate Research Projects

“…On the other hand, in [7], instead of utilizing a survey, SRL skills were qualitatively assessed from students' reflection papers on use of SRL skills through "Design Your Process For Becoming A World Class Engineering Student" project activities. In this paper, as our study is focused on SRL skills on engineering design activities in extracurricular research projects, we adopt a relatively simple survey instrument [8] that was developed and validated particularly for assessment of use of SRL skills in engineering design. Derived from a widely-used questionnaire for assessment of SRL in general classroom settings [9][10], it captures student's perception of metacognition along the cycle of engineering design which typically includes problem definition, conceptual design, preliminary design, detailed design, and design communication.…”

“…Each SRL feature is further split into two subcategories of activities in design process and team management. The resulting ten categories of questionnaire items are a subset of the Engineering Design Metacognitive Questionnaire (EDMQ) [8] and are considered suitable for evaluating use of SRL on engineering project activities. For the completeness of the context in this paper, those ten categories of questionnaire items are provided in Appendix.…”