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Board 150: Systematic Review of the Design Fixation Phenomenon at the K-12 Engineering Education (Other)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

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Sopheak Seng Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Sopheak Seng is a graduate student at Purdue University. He earned an undergraduate degree in Physics before went on to complete a MS in physics from Sogang University in South Korea. Prior to being admitted into the Science Education program at Purdue University, He spent more than four years teaching middle and high school physics. Currently, as a graduate student in the college of education, his research interest focuses on students' ideation in K-12 engineering education.

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Abstract

Design fixation is a phenomenon that inhibits fluency in design thinking. Design fixation is a distinct and established research topic at a post-secondary level which has shown that practitioners of engineering in any capacity (e.g., college students, college professors, or professional engineers) can experience fixation. However, because engineering education is still finding its footing in the K-12 setting, the impacts of fixation on K-12 students are yet to be fully studied. This systematic review is intended to explore how design fixation looks like in the K-12 space and what educational researchers know about the phenomenon. The result points to a landscape of limited studies in this area which makes it impossible to draw any concrete conclusions about the impacts of design fixation on K-12 students’ development of engineering mindset.

Seng, S. (2024, June), Board 150: Systematic Review of the Design Fixation Phenomenon at the K-12 Engineering Education (Other) Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46711

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