Collaborative and Disciplinary Engagement Levels of the Teams While Managing Engineering Design Uncertainties

Abstract

The process of managing uncertainties opens up opportunities for learners to productively engage with the content and disciplinary practices. However, the way learners manage uncertainties might play a role in their process of making intellectual progress. In this paper, we present two cases where groups of students solved an engineering design problem in teams. Using "Productive Disciplinary Engagement" as our analytical lens, we investigated that how does the quality of the disciplinary and collaborative engagements of the teams varied while they managed design uncertainties collaboratively. The results give valuable insights into the nature of the uncertainty management processes of the teams and what support might be required to make the process of uncertainty management productive in collaborative settings.