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Rina Zviel-Girshin; Ida Kukliansky; Nathan Rosenberg – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Early Age Robotics (EAR) education has become extremely popular throughout the world. It has proven to be not only interesting and enjoyable, but also effective at helping even the youngest of children (aged 4-7) develop skills and reap educational benefits. But what about their families? Are parents as happy with EAR programs as are the children?…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Robotics, Technology Education, Parent Attitudes
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Sixuan Xiang; Jenny Wanyi Li; Weipeng Yang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study aims to develop and validate an age-appropriate, easily manipulated, and robot-based assessment named Computational Thinking Observational Scale (CTOS) for 3- to 5-year-olds. The study sample included 46 preschoolers (M[subscript age] = 3.57 years, SD = 0.36). Expert judgment confirmed excellent content validity, yielding a Scale-level…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Robotics, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Lihui Sun; Junjie Liu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
There has been a global consensus to develop computational thinking (CT) in primary education, but the biggest obstacle to promoting CT is teachers' lack of sufficient CT. This study explored the effects of micro: bit educational robotics (MER) programming activities on primary teachers' CT and programming attitudes (PA) while considering the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Elementary School Teachers, Robotics, Programming
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Nuray Akman Selcuk; Sevda Kucuk; Burak Sisman – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study examines the impact of educational robotics applications in Information Technologies and Software courses on the motivation, attitude towards robotics, and academic achievement of 6th-grade secondary school students. The research employed pre-experimental method encompassing 112 students. Students got training in robotics using the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Motivation
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Hanrui Gao; Yi Zhang; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Sunan Zhao; Ying Wang; Kang Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) education in primary schools has received a great deal of attention globally, and it is thus important to investigate primary school students' perceptions and understanding of AI learning. Therefore, in this study, 673 drawings of conceptions of AI learning by third to sixth grade students were collected. Firstly, a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Artificial Intelligence, Freehand Drawing
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Chao Qin; Mengli Zhang; Zhixin Li; Luxin Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being deeply integrated into human society. In the future, human collaboration with AI is inevitable. Therefore, exploring the attitudes of future workers--represented by current K-12 children--towards AI has become crucial. Robots stand as typical representatives of AI. Robot programming education is an important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 6