EVALUATION METHOD FOR ASSESSING STUDENTS' QUALITY OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE IDEATION PROCESS THROUGH DESIGN JOURNALS

This study aims to conceptualise an evaluation method to assess students' quality of critical thinking during the ideation process through design journals. The critical thinking model by Paul and Elder is used as a foundation to create a means to evaluate students' critical thinking. This study creates a case study using the self-study approach as a purposeful sampling strategy. As a self-study approach, the author's experience in conceptualising an evaluation method to assess students' quality of critical thinking documented in the design journal was examined. Using a design journal from a Singapore secondary school, the author presented a method to contextualise the intellectual standards based on teachers' expectations for the design project. The intellectual standards are used to evaluate the reasoning process of the student through the documentation in the design journal.