Cognitive tools for assessing design knowledge and skills

Author

Orhun, Ernrah ; Orhun, Deniz

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Troy Univ., Montgomery, AL, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-2 June 2004

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

42

Abstract

While design is central to education in many disciplines such as engineering and architecture, the assessment of design knowledge and skills continues to be a challenge to the educators. This work considers two graph-based tools (concept maps and justified graphs) for design assessment. By reviewing the uses of these tools for assessment in engineering and architecture design education, it is attempted to determine whether they meet the requirements for assessment of design knowledge and skills.

Keywords

architecture; computer aided instruction; design engineering; educational administrative data processing; engineering education; graphical user interfaces; software tools; architecture design education; cognitive tools; concept maps; design assessment; design knowledge; design skills; engineering design education; graph-based tools; justified graphs; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Communications technology; Computer architecture; Computer science education; Continuing education; Design engineering; Educational products; Information science; Knowledge engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2004. ITHET 2004. Proceedings of the FIfth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8596-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITHET.2004.1358133

Filename

1358133