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Extending the Trends. Teaching Forecasting in Technology Education. Jim Flowers & Mary Annette Rose Ball State University, Muncie, IN. Technology Assessment. Assessing the impacts of products and systems, as well as the availability of resources, is challenging.
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Extending the Trends Teaching Forecasting in Technology Education Jim Flowers & Mary Annette Rose Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Technology Assessment • Assessing the impacts of products and systems, as well as the availability of resources, is challenging. • Creating and adopting technology often has unintended, indirect, and delayed consequences that negatively impact human and environmental health. • As technology students engage in engineering and design, they need to develop predictive skills.
Forecasting “Forecasting is the prediction of values of a variable based on known past values of that variable or other related variables” (Makridakis, Wheelwright & Hyndman, 1998, p. 599) Makridakis, S., Wheelwright, S., & Hyndman, R. (1998). Forecasting: Methods and application. NY: Wiley.
Purpose To share several quantitative forecasting techniques useful in technology education.
Spreadsheet The spreadsheet used in this presentation can be downloaded from:http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/pres/forecasting.xls
Apply Prediction to Performance Data Mousetrap vehicles …taking weight and distance traveled to predict the distance of another vehicle Photo Courtesy of http://www.docfizzix.com
Extending the Trends Teaching Forecasting in Technology Education Jim Flowers & Mary Annette Rose Ball State University, Muncie, IN