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Owner: Mehdi Ghahremani
Owner Email: m.ghahremani@msstate.edu
Paper Title: A Systematic Literature Review of Novice/K–12 Visual Representations of Design Ideas
Session Title: STEM Education Research Through the Lens of Systematic Review
Paper Type: Roundtable Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/10/2021
Presentation Location: Virtual
Descriptors: Creativity, Qualitative Research, Science Education
Methodology: Qualitative
Author(s): Mehdi Ghahremani, Mississippi State University; Nielsen Pereira, Purdue University; Zafer Ozen, Purdue University; Marcia L. Gentry, Purdue University
Unit: SIG-Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate how novice/K-12 students’ visual representation of design ideas has been operationalized, measured, or assessed in the research literature. In the various phases of screening in this systematic review, inclusion, exclusion, and quality criteria were applied. From an initial sample of 958 articles, 40 studies were included in the final step of the coding process and qualitative synthesis. Applying provisional and open coding, three broad themes, and 23 characteristics were identified that have been used by researchers to conceptualize sketching of ideas, in novice/K-12 design activities: Communicating Ideas, Visual-Spatial Characteristics, and Design Creativity. We propose a Three-pronged Design Sketching (3-pDS) framework to examine K-12 design sketches.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/1684825