The role of iteration in the design processes of middle school students

Authors:
Mark Sherman;Fred Martin;Michelle Scribner-MacLean
Affiliations:
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA;University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA;University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
Venue:
C&C '11 Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This project studied the manner in which 7th and 8th grade students approach design problems, focusing on testing and iteration behaviors. Students were asked to solve design problems and create generalized processes for solving them. Observations of the students were analyzed using degree of design success with length and speed of iterations. The time spent exploring the problem before starting testing and iteration was the most significant factor to the success of the student's design. Future work exploring this property of design is needed to understand the causes of it.