Exploring Students Interpretations and Values of Documentation in Creative Learning Domains

Within creative domains, documentation is often central to demonstrating outcomes, process and progress. We deployed a design probe to elicit and externalize conceptions of documentation across the same cohort of 11 students in two semesters. We demonstrate the values of documentation to be coherent across background, time, and experience of the student participants. We also share insights on nine main roles documentation plays for students and discuss how documentation plays an important role in communicating work and building self-confidence and motivation for project-based work.