Teil eines Buches,
The evolution of design studies as methodology
The Cambridge handbook of the learning sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2005)
Zusammenfassung
In the NRC report, Scientific Research in Education, (Shavelson & Towne, 2002) three broad types of research were discussed: trends, causal effects, and mechanism. Mechanism was described as research that answers the question, “how or why is it happening”; the authors2 described “design experiments” as an “analytic approach for examining mechanism that begins with theoretical ideas that are tested through the design, implementation, and systematic study of educational tools (curriculum, teaching methods, computer applets) that embody the initial conjectured mechanism” (p. 120). The Committee identified two products of such work as “theory-driven process of designing” and “data-driven process of refining instructional strategies” (p. 121). Both of these products can be viewed as related to a class of research known as design studies, the focus of this chapter.
