Print Email Facebook Twitter A Framework For Investigating The Application Of Educational Theories In Engineering Education Research Title A Framework For Investigating The Application Of Educational Theories In Engineering Education Research Author van der Werf, V. (TU Delft Web Information Systems; Universiteit Leiden) van Helden, G. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) Schleiss, Johannes (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) Saunders-Smits, Gillian (TU Delft Robot Dynamics) Date 2023 Abstract Grounding the design of educational interventions and their analysis in theory allows us to understand and interpret results of interventions and advance educational theories. Moreover, building an understanding of which educational theories are used and how they are used can build a consensus among researchers and mature the research in a field. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which educational theories are used to ground the design, analysis, and evaluation of learning activities in engineering education. For this purpose, we developed a coding instrument to determine: (1) which educational theories are expressed in studies investigating learning activities and interventions, and (2) the extent to which these theories inform (a) the design of an intervention and (b) the analysis of that intervention. The instrument was applied to a sample of 12 studies from an existing literature review on collaborative engineering design activities to demonstrate the relevance of the developed framework. Results reveal that most studies refer to educational theory, primarily pedagogical approaches such as project-based learning. Furthermore, half of the time, the design of learning interventions is grounded in theory, however, the evaluation of those interventions is often not connected to educational theories. Subject Engineering EducationEducational TheoryCollaborative Learning To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:647ada15-5661-4694-b927-789c71766688 DOI https://doi.org/10.21427/PM7V-MD26 Page numbers 1402-1415 Event 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2023-09-11 → 2023-09-14, Dublin, Ireland Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2023 V. van der Werf, G. van Helden, Johannes Schleiss, Gillian Saunders-Smits Files PDF A_Framework_For_Investiga ... l_Theo.pdf 549.69 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:647ada15-5661-4694-b927-789c71766688/datastream/OBJ/view