Background Prior researchers developed an instrument to measure perceived design
thinking ability of first‐year students interested in engineering, and they validated the …

This paper reports on findings from a group of ten teachers who were enrolled in a semester-
long, graduate-level educational technology course that used design-based learning to …

This study developed a scale for assessing design thinking capabilities in individuals. Many
organizations today are turning to design thinking to tackle the complex challenges they …

BACKGROUND Design experiences play a crucial role in undergraduate engineering
education and are increasingly important in K–12 settings. There are few efforts to …

Engineers play an important role in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
defined by the United Nations, which aim to provide a more sustainable environment for …

Recently, design thinking has become recognized as a necessity for every student,
especially when they engage in design-based learning, as a pedagogical approach to …

Recent education reforms highlight the importance of engineering design as a tool to
improve student science learning in this new view of K-12 science education. However, little …

Engineering design thinking is hard to teach and still harder to learn by novices primarily
due to the undetermined nature of engineering problems that often results in multiple …

Highlights•Questions intended to identify design thinking traits were developed and
tested.•Questions were tested on a survey of US college students (N= 6772).•Those with …

Design thinking is generally defined as an analytic and creative process that engages a
person in opportunities to experiment, create and prototype models, gather feedback, and …