creator Marriott, Christine A. advisor Krawczyk, Robert This research explores the process of assessment within the arena of architectural education by questioning traditional assessment practices and probing into the conditions that necessitate change. As architectural educators we have opened our studios to digital technologies for the purposes of design and representation, but how do we measure and judge new approaches to design process now that the tools students are using to solve problems have changed? New tools are available that allow us to examine the design process, but now that there are these new tools, how do we exploit them without completely uprooting our traditional assessment practices? Researchers have learned a great deal about how we learn, but how can this new understanding help to improve the learning that occurs in the architectural design studio? These are the questions that this research has investigated, and with an understanding of the conditions that surround architectural education, a model for assessment has been proposed. That model integrates the technology used for design and representation with the available tools of technology for the purpose of assessment and a growing body of knowledge about the way that we learn. This model is specific to the study of architecture and the teaching and learning of design process. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-08-28T15:16:31Z No. of bitstreams: 2 CMarriott_Dissertation.pdf: 5692567 bytes, checksum: e07a770a01da82c3db1f9991a6d2109f (MD5) CMarriott_SignedTitlePage.pdf: 9963 bytes, checksum: a3b8d73c0e62b9dc01ded42119d5561a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-28T15:16:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 CMarriott_Dissertation.pdf: 5692567 bytes, checksum: e07a770a01da82c3db1f9991a6d2109f (MD5) CMarriott_SignedTitlePage.pdf: 9963 bytes, checksum: a3b8d73c0e62b9dc01ded42119d5561a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 Ph.D. in Architecture, May 2012 2012-03-26 2012-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2869 en Dissertation born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access ARCH / Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department