Before 1985 design & technology was virtually a research-free zone and, using the APU project we had, by 1991, kicked open a few doors. But there had been serious limits to what we could do with APU, partly because it had been focused simply on learners at age 15, and partly because it was essentially one-time testing rather than longitudinal. Both of these limitations conspired to make it very difficult for us to say much about the growth or evolution of learners’ capability over time.
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(2007). Continuing Fundamental Research. In: Researching Design Learning. Science & Technology Education Library, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5115-9_7
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