Article,
Conjecture Mapping: An Approach to Systematic Educational Design Research
Journal of the Learning Sciences, (2013)
Abstract
Design research is strongly associated with the learning sciences community, and in the two decades since its conception has become broadly accepted. Yet, within and without the learning sciences there remains confusion about how to do design research, with most scholarship on the approach describing what it is rather than how to do it. This paper describes a technique for mapping conjectures through a learning environment design, distinguishing conjectures about how the design should function from theoretical conjectures that explain how that function produces intended outcomes.
