TY  - JOUR
TI  - Examination of High School Students’ Engineering Design Skills:
Example of Electromagnetism
AB  - In the secondary and high school science program implemented in Turkey in 2018, the 
importance of engineering and design skills is underlined under domain-specific skills. 
The purpose of this study, in which case study method, one of the qualitative research 
methods, is used to examine the engineering design skills of high school students within 
the scope of a real-life problem. In the study, an engineering design-based problem of 
making electromagnets was given to high school students, and the study was carried out 
five weeks. During the solution process of the problem, the students were expected to 
accept themselves as an engineer and solve the given daily life-based problem from this 
perspective. The study group consists of 28 volunteer high school students attending at 
the 11th grade in a state high school. The data of the study (written documents) were 
evaluated by the researchers with a content analysis approach. According to the results, it 
was determined that the students were able to deal with the real-life problem from 
different dimensions and come up with appropriate solutions. In addition, when the 
students’ drawings were examined, it was observed that they exhibited their creativity. 
Still, it was observed that the applicability of these drawings was low and far from 
technical details. Another finding is that they are not successful in using scientific 
knowledge and making calculations.
AU  - ERGÜL, N. Remziye
AU  - ÇALIŞ, Sevgül
DO  - 10.36681/tused.2021.102
PY  - 2021
JO  - Journal of Turkish Science Education
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SN  - 1304-6020
SP  - 765
EP  - 780
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/516161
ER  -