The Impact of Educational Robotics on Student STEM Learning, Attitudes, and Workplace Skills

Nugent, Gwen; Barker, Bradley S.; Grandgenett, Neal

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“…A major goal of the robotics project was to increase student perceptions of the value and importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, with the hope that such attitudinal increases would translate into further STEM course taking and career interest. Our data has shown that most students enter the program with relatively high expressed interest, leaving little room for increases [13]. We did, however, begin to see some camp impacts during the last two years of data collection.…”

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“…Sample lessons cover such skills as writing a simple program to display text on the brick, programming the robot motors for movement and various turns, using loops in a program, navigation to avoid obstacles using touch and ultrasonic sensors, and programming the sound sensor and the light sensor to track a line. (A complete description of the curriculum can be found in [13]; samples of the curriculum are on line at http://www.gt21.org).…”

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“…Separate analyses of the research data were conducted for each year of the camps, clubs, and competitions and many of these annual results have been published elsewhere [3,13,14,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24]. This paper provides a synthesis of the research results, identifying data trends, and which reflect consistent and stable effects of the robotics experiences.…”

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Robotics camps, clubs, and competitions: Results from a US robotics project

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Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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Lincoln has spent the last eight years developing and implementing a comprehensive educational robotics program for youth ages 9-14. The program was delivered in informal (out-of-school) learning environments through robotics camps, clubs, and competitions and provided robotics experiences to over 5,000 youth and 400 educators. The goal of the project was to positively impact the youths' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and attitudes-and to foster an interest in STEM careers. Results of extensive research and evaluation showed that youth participation in the robotics activities increased their STEM content knowledge (particularly engineering and computer programming), their perceived problem solving skills and their interest in engineering careers. Youth also perceived that the robotics activities were different from those in school, reporting that the robotics camp was more interesting and involved more hands-on activities.

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“…This is because the challenges allow "hands-on" engagement with actual objects that assist them to spark curiosity and intrigue among them (Khanlari, 2013). Moreover, the ability of developing cooperative learning in robotic challenges acted as a means to promote students" interest towards learning STEM (Mosley, Ardito & Scollins, 2016;Nugent, Barker & Grandgenett, 2016). On top of that, through the Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop that were conducted, the students were given exposure of how each component in the minimalist robot worked and were able to move with the instructions given from the blocks built from the Scratch4Arduino (S4A) programming.…”

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Promoting Students’ Interest, Attitude and Intrinsic Motivation Towards Learning STEM Through Minimalist Robot Education Programme

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Intrinsic motivation is one of the main driving forces for students’ interest and attitude towards learning STEM subjects such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Unfortunately, students’ interestand attitude towards STEM subjects are on the decline. A continued decline, if unchecked, will affect the number of students’ enrolment into the STEM fields. This study was conducted to investigate the students’ interest, attitude and intrinsic motivation towards learning STEM subjects by appraising the pro educational modules that include assembling and dismantling the minimalist robots and by providing software training to the students. The results of hypothesis testing of P-value generated via Statistical Packages of Social Sciences (SPSS) v2.5 indicate the effectiveness of Minimalist Robot Education Programme. The students’ interest, attitude and intrinsic motivation show a significant difference towards the learning of STEM. The findings also show that all the alternative hypotheses: (1) students’ interest towards learning STEM is increased as a result of participating in the Minimalist Robotic Education Programme; (2); students’ attitude towards learning STEM increased as a result of participating in the Minimalist Robotic Education Programme and (3) students’ intrinsic motivation towards learning STEM increased as a result of participating in the Minimalist Robotic Education Programme set for this study.These favorable findings can be a platform for advocating the application of robotics in the Malaysian curricula.

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“…Hence, robotics is growing in importance in pre-university education. Furthermore, it has the power to motivate young students, either as a field of knowledge in itself to learn complex notions in an almost play-like environment, or as a tool to present technology and other subjects to those students in an attractive and motivating manner [ 28 , 29 ].…”

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Systematic Review on Which Analytics and Learning Methodologies Are Applied in Primary and Secondary Education in the Learning of Robotics Sensors

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Robotics technology has become increasingly common both for businesses and for private citizens. Primary and secondary schools, as a mirror of societal evolution, have increasingly integrated science, technology, engineering and math concepts into their curricula. Our research questions are: “In teaching robotics to primary and secondary school students, which pedagogical-methodological interventions result in better understanding and knowledge in the use of sensors in educational robotics?”, and “In teaching robotics to primary and secondary school students, which analytical methods related to Learning Analytics processes are proposed to analyze and reflect on students’ behavior in their learning of concepts and skills of sensors in educational robotics?”. To answer these questions, we have carried out a systematic review of the literature in the Web of Science and Scopus databases regarding robotics sensors in primary and secondary education, and Learning Analytics processes. We applied PRISMA methodology and reviewed a total of 24 articles. The results show a consensus about the use of the Learning by Doing and Project-Based Learning methodologies, including their different variations, as the most common methodology for achieving optimal engagement, motivation and performance in students’ learning. Finally, future lines of research are identified from this study.

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The Impact of Educational Robotics on Student STEM Learning, Attitudes, and Workplace Skills

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Robotics camps, clubs, and competitions: Results from a US robotics project

Robotics camps, clubs, and competitions: Results from a US robotics project

Promoting Students’ Interest, Attitude and Intrinsic Motivation Towards Learning STEM Through Minimalist Robot Education Programme

Systematic Review on Which Analytics and Learning Methodologies Are Applied in Primary and Secondary Education in the Learning of Robotics Sensors

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