HCD in K-12 Education
The purpose of research studies under this area is to:
Investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of introducing HCD in K-12 educational settings
Assess the impact of HCD integration on students’ interests and overall learning outcomes in K-12 classrooms.
Develop age-appropriate HCD frameworks, tools, and resources for educators to incorporate HCD into K-12 curricula and teaching methods
Publications and Conference Presentations
Publications
Guerrero, B. & Shehab, S. (2025). The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Human-Centered Design Professional Learning Community in a High School Setting. International Society of Learning Sciences (ISLS) [Conference Session]. Helsinki, Finland
Shehab, S., & Bergandine, D. (2024). Chemistry by Design: A 4-week in-person and virtual activity to teach chemistry through Human-Centered Design. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 25(1), 61-68
González, G., Shehab, S. & Powers, E. (2024, April). Teaching geometry to advance design justice. In T. Lowrie, A. Gutiérrez, & F. Emprin (Eds.). The 26th International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) Study: Advances in Geometry Education, Conference Pre-Proceedings. INSPE, University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, France.
Tucker, T., & Shehab, S. (2024). People Designing for People: A one-week human-centered design engineering summer camp for pre-college students. The Science Teacher, 91(2), 54-60
González, G., & Shehab, S. (2022, August). Teaching geometry with a Human-Centered Design approach. In Robichaud, X. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2022 Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS) Conference (pp. 102-112). Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan, Canada
Shehab, S. (2021). Designing a three levels poster to visualize chemical reactions. Science Activities, 58(2), 65-69.
Conference Presentations
Shehab, S., & González, G. (2025, April 23-27). [Roundtable session]. Merging lesson study and Human-Centered Design for Innovative Professional Development. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denverl, CO, United States.
González, G., & Shehab, S. (2025, April 23-27). [Roundtable session]. Teacher noticing during an open lesson and video club bricolage. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denverl, CO, United States.
Shell, J.K., Tapiawala, V., Parks, T., & Shehab, S. (June 23–26, 2024). Ongoing evaluation of pre-college students’ learning outcomes during a human-centered engineering design summer camp [Poster session]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR, United States.
Tucker, T., & Shehab, S. (2023, June 25-28). Evaluating the impact of a one-week Human-Centered Design engineering summer camp on pre-college students’ learning outcomes (RTP) [Paper presentation]. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD, United States.
González, G., & Shehab, S. (2022, August). Teaching geometry with a Human-Centered Design approach [Paper session]. The Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS) Conference (virtual), Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan, Canada.
Shehab, S., & Bergandine, D. (2022, July 31-August 4). Teaching chemistry through Human-Centered Design [Conference Session]. The Biennial Conference on Chemistry Education (BCCE), Purdue University, IN, United States.