@inproceedings{7fe159a51e5243fd9678dc6b6ad98b47,
title = "Dedicated Assignments as a Means of Advancing Junior Students{\textquoteright} Systems Thinking and Abstract Thinking",
abstract = "To design and maintain complex engineering systems, engineers need to adopt the characteristics of the so-called systems thinker and abstract thinker. The study described here aimed to investigate whether systems thinking and abstract thinking could be advanced simultaneously, through dedicated assignments, at a relatively early stage. Twenty-six high-school electronics students (Grade 11), who were executing their final project, took part in the study. Fourteen tasks focusing on systems thinking and abstract thinking were integrated into the curriculum. At the beginning and end of the school year, students took an achievement test, designed to assess their systems and abstract thinking. The test findings pointed to a significant improvement in both systems thinking and abstract thinking.",
keywords = "Abstract thinking, High-school electronics students, Systems thinking",
author = "Aharon Gero and Aziz Shekh-Abed and Orit Hazzan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2021 ; Conference date: 22-09-2021 Through 24-09-2021",
year = "2022",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93907-6_22",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
isbn = "9783030939069",
series = "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "210--216",
editor = "Auer, {Michael E.} and Hanno Hortsch and Oliver Michler and Thomas K{\"o}hler",
booktitle = "Mobility for Smart Cities and Regional Development - Challenges for Higher Education - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2021",
address = "ألمانيا",
}