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Direct linkQuan, Gina M.; Gupta, Ayush – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Tinkering, an ad hoc approach to solving a problem, involves manipulating objects to characterize and build knowledge about a particular system in an exploratory way, often with the goal of getting some product/idea to produce desired behavior. Tinkering contrasts more deliberate activity toward understanding how a phenomenon works.…
Descriptors: Design, Problem Solving, Object Manipulation, Productivity
