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Xinli Zhang; Yuchen Chen; Danqing Li; Lailin Hu; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Yun-Fang Tu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Robotics education has received widespread attention in K-12 education. Studies have pointed out that in robotics courses, learners face challenges in learning abstract content, such as constructing a robot with a good structure and writing programs to drive a robot to complete specific learning tasks. The present study proposed the embodied…
Descriptors: Robotics, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Li, Qi; Jiang, Qiang; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Xiong, Weiyan; Liang, Yu; Zhao, Wei – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Different instructional strategies have been drawn to assist elementary school students in improving computational thinking (CT) skills and student engagement (SE) in unplugged programming activities. This paper aimed to explore how the interactive strategies of unplugged programming affect CT skills and SE. The study was conducted based on a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Programming, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Sáez-López, José-Manuel; Sevillano-García, Maria-Luisa; Vazquez-Cano, Esteban – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
This study highlights the importance of an educational design that includes robotics and programming through a visual programming language as a means to enable students to improve substantially their understanding of the elements of logic and mathematics. Gaining an understanding of computational concepts as well as a high degree of student…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Programming, Programming Languages, Robotics
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Instructional strategies make a difference in whether students are engaged in learning and are profiting from their time in class. High schools, technology centers and middle grades schools are encouraging teachers to adopt new teaching techniques and are providing opportunities for teachers to work together to improve their instructional skills…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, High Schools, Middle Schools, Teaching Methods
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection