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The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on EducationIncreasing Student Confidence in Engineering Sketching via a Software Coach

The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education: Increasing Student Confidence in Engineering... [Sketching is an important skill for engineering design students. A serious problem found by Northwestern instructors is that students are afraid to sketch. We are tackling this problem by developing the Design Coach, which enables students to practice explaining their designs via a combination of sketching and language, to reduce their anxiety about communicating via sketching. This paper summarizes the overall operation of the Design Coach and reports on a classroom experiment providing evidence that that the Design Coach does in fact reduce student anxiety, compared to a control group that did not use it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on EducationIncreasing Student Confidence in Engineering Sketching via a Software Coach

Part of the Human–Computer Interaction Series Book Series
Editors: Hammond, Tracy; Valentine, Stephanie; Adler, Aaron; Payton, Mark
Wetzel, Jon; Forbus, Ken
The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education — Jul 10, 2015
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-15593-7
Pages
107 –118
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-15594-4_11
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Abstract

[Sketching is an important skill for engineering design students. A serious problem found by Northwestern instructors is that students are afraid to sketch. We are tackling this problem by developing the Design Coach, which enables students to practice explaining their designs via a combination of sketching and language, to reduce their anxiety about communicating via sketching. This paper summarizes the overall operation of the Design Coach and reports on a classroom experiment providing evidence that that the Design Coach does in fact reduce student anxiety, compared to a control group that did not use it.]

Published: Jul 10, 2015

Keywords: Homework Assignment; Design Thinking; Math Anxiety; Qualitative Reasoning; Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

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