Marc J De Vries
Biographic Data
| ID | 462132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc J De Vries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc J |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vries |
| SIGNATURE | DE VRIES M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1982-2157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Spatial ability’s contribution to pupils’ creative design performance
Prior research examining the relationship between spatial ability and creative design performance among college students has yielded mixed findings. Even less is known about how spatial ability predicts creative design performance in younger pupils and how its role compares to other cognitive abilities commonly linked to design performance, such as creativity. This study examines how spatial ability, divergent thinking, and creative imagery abili…
Cognitive and embodied mapping of data
Understanding and effectively using visual representations is important to learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Various techniques to visualize information, such as two- and three-dimensional graphs, diagrams, and models, not only expand our capacity to work with different types of information but also actively recruit our visual–spatial thinking. Data physicalization is emerging as a beginner-friendly approach to co…
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning
Design‐based learning is considered a powerful way to help students apply and develop understanding of science concepts, but research has shown that the success of this approach is not a given. Examining students' understanding of science concepts in various design‐based learning contexts has thus continued to be an important field of research. To help advance such work, we explored the affordances of a novel analytic approach for studying data g…
‘ Would you dare to jump? ’ Fostering a scientific approach to secondary physics inquiry
Secondary school students often only use the rules for doing scientific inquiry when prompted, as if they fail to see the point of doing so. This qualitative design study explores conditions to address this problem in school science inquiry. Dutch students (N = 22, aged 14–15) repeatedly consider the quality of their work: in a conventional, guided inquiry approach; by evaluating their conclusion in terms of the contextual purpose of the investig…
What do they know? Investigating students’ ability to analyse experimental data in secondary physics education
This paper explores students’ ability to analyse and interpret empirical data as inadequate data analysis skills and understandings may contribute to the renowned disappointing outcomes of practical work in secondary school physics. Selected competences, derived from a collection of leading curricula, are explored through interviews and practical tasks, each consisting of three probes. The 51 students, aged 15 and commencing post-compulsory scien…
Innovation Research in Technology and Engineering Management
Philosophy may not seem to be an obvious source to discover methods for successful product innovation management. However, this book shows that systematic reflection on the nature of product innovation management, supported by insights from the philosophy of technology, can illuminate the innovation process in technology and engineering. Presenting methodological guidelines and philosophical reflections, this book guides readers through each phas…
Bringing design practices to chemistry classrooms
Bringing design practices to chemistry education is gaining interest with recent science curriculum reforms emphasising design, and calls for integrated STEM education. Design is a central practice in the chemistry discipline, and could foster meaningful chemistry education. Although chemistry teachers are key in bringing design to chemistry classrooms, and in realising design’s potential for learning, little is known about their views on teachin…
Reflections on Technology for Educational Practitioners
Reflections on Technology for Educational Practitioners analyzes the use of philosophy of technology in technology education and unpacks the concept of ‘reflective practitioners’ (Donald Schön) in the field. Philosophy of technology develops ideas and concepts that are valuable for technology education because they show the basic characteristics of technology that are important if technology education is to present a fair image of what technology…
The Normative Nature of Social Practices and Ethics in Professional Environments
Handbook of Technology Education
Ubiquitous learning and massive communication in Moocs
In the present study, we refer to Carr's theory on the nature of educational practice for evaluating teaching as a praxis in relation to two major changes, i.e. ubiquitous learning and massive communication caused by MOOCs. With regard to the first change, we argue that the teacher is faced with the problem of encouraging the learners to get involved in the educational activities. The second change has resulted in a reduction of teacher’s agency …
Handbook of Technology Education
Book Symposium on Le concept d’information dans la science contemporaine
Book Symposium on The Philosophy of Simondon
Philosophy of Technology
Extending the Theory of Normative Practices
The theory of normative practices has proven to be helpful in eliciting the normative dimension of social practices. In this article we apply the theory to military practice. Since current military missions are Network Enabled Operations, which mandate a strong focus on cooperation with other military and non-military partners, an additional framework is needed to understand actual problems in such missions. We have extended the theory of normati…
Technological Knowledge
This chapter contains sections titled: Types of Knowledge in Technology A Neglected Topic Empirical Studies Philosophical Explorations References and Further Reading
Transitions in industrial research
In this article we describe the history of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Nat.Lab.) in the Netherlands in the period 1914-1994. The article aims at considering three main research problems. Firstly, we pay attention to the process of institutionalisation of industrial research and development (R&D) in the twentieth century. Secondly, we place the history of the Nat.Lab. in the context of innovation in the Netherlands. Finally, we investig…
Kunst und Maschine
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 697 age already done and being perpetuated by government money for scientific-type research by engineering teachers, Design Paradigms pro vides nine historical chapters on engineering failures, from the haul ing of heavy monolithic components of ancient Greek temples to the possible future failure of one or more of the currently popular cable-stayed suspension bridges. The chapter on “The Design Climate for t…
Kunst und Maschine
STS Curriculum Analysis
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STS Curriculum Analysis
Kunst und Maschine
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 697 age already done and being perpetuated by government money for scientific-type research by engineering teachers, Design Paradigms pro vides nine historical chapters on engineering failures, from the haul ing of heavy monolithic components of ancient Greek temples to the possible future failure of one or more of the currently popular cable-stayed suspension bridges. The chapter on “The Design Climate for t…
Kunst und Maschine
Transitions in industrial research
In this article we describe the history of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Nat.Lab.) in the Netherlands in the period 1914-1994. The article aims at considering three main research problems. Firstly, we pay attention to the process of institutionalisation of industrial research and development (R&D) in the twentieth century. Secondly, we place the history of the Nat.Lab. in the context of innovation in the Netherlands. Finally, we investig…
Technological Knowledge
This chapter contains sections titled: Types of Knowledge in Technology A Neglected Topic Empirical Studies Philosophical Explorations References and Further Reading
Extending the Theory of Normative Practices
The theory of normative practices has proven to be helpful in eliciting the normative dimension of social practices. In this article we apply the theory to military practice. Since current military missions are Network Enabled Operations, which mandate a strong focus on cooperation with other military and non-military partners, an additional framework is needed to understand actual problems in such missions. We have extended the theory of normati…
Book Symposium on The Philosophy of Simondon
Philosophy of Technology
Book Symposium on Le concept d’information dans la science contemporaine
Handbook of Technology Education
Handbook of Technology Education
Ubiquitous learning and massive communication in Moocs
In the present study, we refer to Carr's theory on the nature of educational practice for evaluating teaching as a praxis in relation to two major changes, i.e. ubiquitous learning and massive communication caused by MOOCs. With regard to the first change, we argue that the teacher is faced with the problem of encouraging the learners to get involved in the educational activities. The second change has resulted in a reduction of teacher’s agency …
Reflections on Technology for Educational Practitioners
Reflections on Technology for Educational Practitioners analyzes the use of philosophy of technology in technology education and unpacks the concept of ‘reflective practitioners’ (Donald Schön) in the field. Philosophy of technology develops ideas and concepts that are valuable for technology education because they show the basic characteristics of technology that are important if technology education is to present a fair image of what technology…
The Normative Nature of Social Practices and Ethics in Professional Environments
Bringing design practices to chemistry classrooms
Bringing design practices to chemistry education is gaining interest with recent science curriculum reforms emphasising design, and calls for integrated STEM education. Design is a central practice in the chemistry discipline, and could foster meaningful chemistry education. Although chemistry teachers are key in bringing design to chemistry classrooms, and in realising design’s potential for learning, little is known about their views on teachin…
What do they know? Investigating students’ ability to analyse experimental data in secondary physics education
This paper explores students’ ability to analyse and interpret empirical data as inadequate data analysis skills and understandings may contribute to the renowned disappointing outcomes of practical work in secondary school physics. Selected competences, derived from a collection of leading curricula, are explored through interviews and practical tasks, each consisting of three probes. The 51 students, aged 15 and commencing post-compulsory scien…
Innovation Research in Technology and Engineering Management
Philosophy may not seem to be an obvious source to discover methods for successful product innovation management. However, this book shows that systematic reflection on the nature of product innovation management, supported by insights from the philosophy of technology, can illuminate the innovation process in technology and engineering. Presenting methodological guidelines and philosophical reflections, this book guides readers through each phas…
‘ Would you dare to jump? ’ Fostering a scientific approach to secondary physics inquiry
Secondary school students often only use the rules for doing scientific inquiry when prompted, as if they fail to see the point of doing so. This qualitative design study explores conditions to address this problem in school science inquiry. Dutch students (N = 22, aged 14–15) repeatedly consider the quality of their work: in a conventional, guided inquiry approach; by evaluating their conclusion in terms of the contextual purpose of the investig…
Cognitive and embodied mapping of data
Understanding and effectively using visual representations is important to learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Various techniques to visualize information, such as two- and three-dimensional graphs, diagrams, and models, not only expand our capacity to work with different types of information but also actively recruit our visual–spatial thinking. Data physicalization is emerging as a beginner-friendly approach to co…
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning
Design‐based learning is considered a powerful way to help students apply and develop understanding of science concepts, but research has shown that the success of this approach is not a given. Examining students' understanding of science concepts in various design‐based learning contexts has thus continued to be an important field of research. To help advance such work, we explored the affordances of a novel analytic approach for studying data g…
Spatial ability’s contribution to pupils’ creative design performance
Prior research examining the relationship between spatial ability and creative design performance among college students has yielded mixed findings. Even less is known about how spatial ability predicts creative design performance in younger pupils and how its role compares to other cognitive abilities commonly linked to design performance, such as creativity. This study examines how spatial ability, divergent thinking, and creative imagery abili…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Science education (4 works)