I am looking for instructional design to teach Design Thinking to educational technology students with a constructive approach. Are there scales or questionnaires or other tools to track the learning of these students?
Basically, Evaluation in constructivism focuses on the process taken by individual students in the process of creation of knowledge. Each student is considered different from the strength of the individual, weakness, and knowledge and experience.
For more info: http://etec.ctlt.ubc.ca/510wiki/EvaluationConstructivistLearning
As you know, design thinking is a kind of creative human-centered thinking in problem solving. I want to do an Instructional design for it, and after teaching it to instructional designers, I will get a scale to determine how much they learn from education. Can you help define the criteria and scale for measuring student learning?
Evaluation based on a constructivist approach is, no doubt, procedural. It is very much based on note-taking, natural observation, and on the application of different instruments, in order to reduce the subjectivity of the assessment.
If you have difficulty finding questionnaires that measure the variables you want, try to build and validate them in your sample. It would be a huge contribution to this research field.
Dear Susan Talebi , as design thinking involves both conceptual but most importantly procedural knowledge, a social constructivist approach should aim at providing opportunities for all students to create their own meaning by actively applying the taught method e.g. through an instructional approach such as project-based learning. To this end, one useful scale is SOLO taxonomy [1] to achieve a constructive alignment [2] of learning outcomes and evaluation towards deeper, meaningful knowledge that will last after the end of the course and be transferrable to the workplace [3] .
[1] Biggs, J. B., & Collis, K. F. (1982). Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The SOLO Taxonomy. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2013-0-10375-3
[2] Biggs, J. (2014). Constructive alignment in university teaching. HERDSA Review of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1999.00431.x
[3] Mystakidis, S. (2021). Deep and Meaningful Learning. Encyclopedia, 1(3), 988–997. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia1030075