Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Gifted students need complexity in technology education. In response, this article aims to present a framework for analyzing complexity in technology education activities (AKTA), which can be used to meet gifted students’ needs of complexity. The framework has been created by combining abilities (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create) with knowledge dimensions (factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge) and higher order thinking. Furthermore, the framework is applied to activities for lower secondary technology education to demonstrate its utility as an analytical tool. The framework is intended for use in discussing, planning, and developing technology education with a focus on gifted students’ needs.
Author: Helen Brink
Institution: Karlstad University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Karlstads universitet
OpenAlex ID: W4414883571