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Effects of Robotics Instructional Methods on Computational Thinking Skills of Middle School Students
Andrew Patrick Cook – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As a tangible and motivating medium for students to engage in computational thinking, robotics has drawn interest from educators and researchers as K-12 schools continue to integrate STEM into curriculum. Through this mixed methods study, the researcher sought to explore the effects of robotics instructional methods (task-based and project-based)…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Robotics, Teaching Methods
Barak, Moshe; Assal, Muhammad – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
This study presents the case of development and evaluation of a STEM-oriented 30-h robotics course for junior high school students (n = 32). Class activities were designed according to the P3 Task Taxonomy, which included: (1) practice-basic closed-ended tasks and exercises; (2) problem solving--small-scale open-ended assignments in which the…
Descriptors: Robotics, STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Assignments
Tobin, William; Feit, Valerie – Teachers College Press, 2020
New research points to the future of education as online, student-centered, collaborative, and community-based--all largely absent from today's educational landscape. This timely guide shows middle, high school, and college students how to undertake research to address challenges in their curriculum and communities. The approach is deliberately…
Descriptors: Student Research, Community Change, Ethics, Problem Solving
Ciminero, Sandra Elser – Arts & Activities, 2012
To celebrate a milestone in eighth-graders' lives--leaving middle school and moving on to high school--the author assigns them the "Coming of Age" project, which examines the big idea of identity and promotes the move from self-reflection to self-expression. The project also includes writing components that correspond to each of the nine…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Middle School Students, Student Projects
Connors, Sean P.; Sullivan, Racheal – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
This article recounts what happened when one of the authors, a pre-service teacher, introduced a digital multimodal composition project in her 9th-grade inclusion English classes to support junior high students as they read the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". Rather than regard new literacies as competing with print literacy for attention, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers, Language Arts, Secondary Education
Ellwood, Robin B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research investigated how student social interactions within two approaches to an inquiry-based science curriculum could be related to student motivation and achievement outcomes. This qualitative case study consisted of two cases, Off-Campus and On-Campus, and used ethnographic techniques of participant observation. Research participants…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Motivation, Computer Software, Inquiry
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2013
This newsletter of best practices in implementing the High Schools That Work (HSTW), Making Middle Grades Work (MMGW) and Technology Centers That Work (TCTW) school improvement models is based on presentations at the 27th Annual HSTW Staff Development Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the summer of 2013. The newsletter is divided up into…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Learner Engagement, Assignments, High Schools