Elementary Students' Design Process Knowledge Task Interview Protocol

<p>This interview protocol assesses elementary students engineering design process knowledge.  The protocol starts off with a short story about Chris’s participation in an egg drop design challenge.  The steps that Chris went through to design a container for the egg were shown to the student in one of three ways: (1) a single flow diagram with text only, (2) a single flow diagram with text and pictures, and (3) picture cards that were laid out in front of the student one-by-one. In association with the project Elementary Engineering Education (NSF DRK-12 DRL 0822261), this protocol was used in academic years 2008-09 through 2012-13 with grades 2 to 4 students.  This protocol was used prior to and after engineering lessons, and it was part of the longer Grade 2-4 Student Interview Protocols (NSF DRK-12 DRL 0822261). The protocol evolved over the course of the project. Data collection 2008-09 (pre) through 2011-12 (pre) used all three means of showing the design steps; each student interviewed saw a randomly selected presentation of the design process.  A new version of (2) was developed for the 2011-12 data collection. For the 2012-13 data collection, only the new version of (2) was used when interviewing students.  Collaborators: Monica E. Cardella; Ming-Chien Hsu; Senay Purzer</p>