Science Educators Teaching Engineering Design: An Examination across Science Professional Development Sites

Abstract

Although the currently employed STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) acronym is

Embedding Safety in Integrative STEM Teaching Methods Courses for Pre-Service Elementary Educators

“…Following the release of the NGSS, numerous studies examined elementary educators' safety practices during engineering design challenges. Some of these studies specifically focused on differences in teachers' safety views and practices when participating in professional development (PD) that was led by T&E teacher educators compared to science teacher educators (Grubbs et al, 2016;Love, 2017a). Educators who participated in the PD experiences led by T&E teacher educators had a more creative and expansive view of engineering design, and used a broader selection of materials and tools to safely design solutions (Grubbs et al, 2016).…”

“…Some of these studies specifically focused on differences in teachers' safety views and practices when participating in professional development (PD) that was led by T&E teacher educators compared to science teacher educators (Grubbs et al, 2016;Love, 2017a). Educators who participated in the PD experiences led by T&E teacher educators had a more creative and expansive view of engineering design, and used a broader selection of materials and tools to safely design solutions (Grubbs et al, 2016). Love (2017a) found educators in T&E teacher educator led PD sessions experienced significantly greater gains in their safety self-efficacy and tool/materials safety awareness than educators at the PD sites led by science teacher educators.…”

Design and Analysis of Online Micro-course of Garden Architecture Design Based on CPC Model

“…In recent years, micro-course has been more and more widely applied in design and architecture curses, and has gained god teaching effects. In addition, the researches on design and architecture micro-curses have become increasingly deep, and there are new findings and progress [7]. He [8] combined Revit series software with the microcourse of architecture design major, and utilized Revit series software to help students simulate architecture design, construction and maintenance.…”

“…Score statistics for all students was made after the one semester, and questionnaire survey about their learning attitude was done to verify the application effect of online micro-course platform. The learning attitude questionnaire was gained through modifying the questionnaire designed by Zhang et al [7]. The questionnaire adopted Likert5 score system, including 4 dimensions and 23 items.…”

Safety Factors and Accidents in P-12 Pre-Engineering and Engineering Design Courses: Results from a National Study (Fundamental)

“…In 2014, the inclusion of engineering content and practices at the same substantive level as scientific inquiry in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) [9][10][11] raised concerns from engineering educators [12][13][14]. Concerns reflected the limited preparation that engineering educators believed many P-12 science educators had to teach engineering concepts in great depth [12][13][14][15][16].…”