What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces?

Yoav Bergner; Samuel Abramovich; Marcelo Worsley; Ofer Chen

doi:10.1145/3311890.3311896

What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces?

Yoav Bergner, Samuel Abramovich, Marcelo Worsley, Ofer Chen

Administration, Leadership & Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

We report on the analysis of responses about the benefits of educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces (FLMs) and about claims of student growth and learning in these spaces. We review related literature on assessment in FLMs and on efforts to develop frameworks. Methods of the the current study include the design of the FabLearn workshop, where responses were elicited from practitioners, and mixed-methods analyses of those responses. Results, in the form of the coding guides, are presented, followed by a discussion of the construct categories, alignment between benefits and claims codes, and consequences for coherent assessment in FLMs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education
Subtitle of host publication	What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	42-49
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450362443
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311896
State	Published - Mar 9 2019
Event	FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019 - New York, United States Duration: Mar 9 2019 → Mar 10 2019

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	3/9/19 → 3/10/19

Keywords

Assessment
Maker Education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

Access to Document

10.1145/3311890.3311896

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Bergner, Y., Abramovich, S., Worsley, M., & Chen, O. (2019). What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces? In Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and (pp. 42-49). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311896

What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces? / Bergner, Yoav; Abramovich, Samuel; Worsley, Marcelo et al.
Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 42-49 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Bergner, Y, Abramovich, S, Worsley, M & Chen, O 2019, What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces? in Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 42-49, FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019, New York, United States, 3/9/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311896

Bergner Y, Abramovich S, Worsley M, Chen O. What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces? In Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. p. 42-49. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3311890.3311896

Bergner, Yoav ; Abramovich, Samuel ; Worsley, Marcelo et al. / What are the learning and assessment objectives in educational Fab Labs and Makerspaces?. Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. pp. 42-49 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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