The Significance of Integrating Engineering Design-Based Instruction in STEM Education
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Engineering design-based learning activities can successfully spark students’ interest in real-world issues by motivating them to apply their disciplinary knowledge in mathematics, science and more to analyze and solve problems identified (Uzel & Bilici, 2022). Generally speaking, problem identification and problem solving are the two primary steps in the engineering design process. Researchers assert that engineering design-based instruction (EDBI) is a novel paradigm of teaching, particularly valuable in inquiry-based instructional practices (Cooper et al., 2015). Research finds that the enactment of EDBI for addressing open, practical issues is substantially beneficial for increasing the problem-solving and design abilities of primary and secondary students (Crotty et al., 2017; Capobianco et al., 2018), and that EDBI implementation in STEM education can significantly improve students’ attitudes towards the STEM curriculum, promote their academic success, and support their 21st-century skills development (Moore et al., 2015).
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