Using educational research in the design of evaluation tools for open-ended problems

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 807-819

  Diefes Dux, Heidi A ^a   Zawojewski, Judith S ^b   Hjalmarson, Margret A ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design based research; Evaluation tools; Open ended problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956434652     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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