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Enhancing Technology Education Through Forecasting Techniques

Learn about the challenges and impacts of technology assessment, the importance of developing predictive skills in engineering and design, and quantitative forecasting techniques applicable in technology education. Access the spreadsheet and apply prediction to performance data.

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Enhancing Technology Education Through Forecasting Techniques

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  1. Extending the Trends Teaching Forecasting in Technology Education Jim Flowers & Mary Annette Rose Ball State University, Muncie, IN

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Purpose To share several quantitative forecasting techniques useful in technology education.

  5. Spreadsheet The spreadsheet used in this presentation can be downloaded from:http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/pres/forecasting.xls

  6. 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

  7. Extending the Trends Teaching Forecasting in Technology Education Jim Flowers & Mary Annette Rose Ball State University, Muncie, IN

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