TY - GEN
T1 - Gender Differences in Engineering Design Thinking in a Project-Based STEAM Course
AU - Yen, Wan Hsuan
AU - Chang, Chi Cheng
AU - Willliams, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM)-related fields remains a concern for educators and the engineering community. Females tend to need more social support and learn better within a group. Using Project-based Learning (PjBL) seems to provide a supportive approach for female students to engage with STEAM. We adopted IDEO’s design process to evaluate the progress both female and male students made after participating in a PjBL-STEAM course. 137 high school students were recruited in this course to tackle the task to build a truss tower. Both female and male students evidenced significant progress in all constructs of engineering design thinking ability. In addition, there was no significant difference between female and male students’ posttest result. Our research echoes earlier research that female students can benefit from group work and develop substantial learning outcomes from PjBL-STEAM course.
AB - The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM)-related fields remains a concern for educators and the engineering community. Females tend to need more social support and learn better within a group. Using Project-based Learning (PjBL) seems to provide a supportive approach for female students to engage with STEAM. We adopted IDEO’s design process to evaluate the progress both female and male students made after participating in a PjBL-STEAM course. 137 high school students were recruited in this course to tackle the task to build a truss tower. Both female and male students evidenced significant progress in all constructs of engineering design thinking ability. In addition, there was no significant difference between female and male students’ posttest result. Our research echoes earlier research that female students can benefit from group work and develop substantial learning outcomes from PjBL-STEAM course.
KW - Engineering design thinking
KW - Female engineer
KW - Gender
KW - Project-based learning
KW - Science-technology-engineering-art-math
KW - STEAM
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_57
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_57
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85121621149
SN - 9783030915391
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 557
EP - 566
BT - Innovative Technologies and Learning - 4th International Conference, ICITL 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Huang, Yueh-Min
A2 - Lai, Chin-Feng
A2 - Rocha, Tânia
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2021
Y2 - 29 November 2021 through 1 December 2021
ER -