Data for article "Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge"

This study used educational design-based research to develop a nature-inspired, design-by-analogy project and investigate the spatial thinking processes of young, novice designers. 16 pupils from an international school in the Netherlands participated in the five-week design project. Multimodal evidence from classroom recordings and pupils' design works were triangulated to offer insight into the key spatial thinking processes involved in their creation of nature-inspired, analogy-based design prototypes. This dataset includes what was used for qualitative analysis in our article, including (1) all pupils' design-related works from the classroom, which have been photographed and anonymized, and (2) anonymized transcription of videos and audio recordings that captured the classroom learning and designing processes.

本研究采用教育设计研究（educational design-based research）范式，开发了一项受自然启发的类比设计项目，以探究年轻新手设计师的空间思维过程。来自荷兰某国际学校的16名小学生参与了此项为期五周的设计项目。本研究通过对课堂录音与学生设计作品等多模态证据开展三角验证，为剖析他们在创作受自然启发的类比设计原型时所涉及的核心空间思维过程提供了详实洞见。本数据集涵盖了本文质性分析所用的全部资料，具体包括：(1) 所有学生的课堂设计相关作品，已完成拍摄并完成匿名化处理；(2) 记录课堂学习与设计全过程的视频及音频的匿名化转写文本。