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Xin Gong; Shufan Yu; Jie Xu; Ailing Qiao; Han Han – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Tangible programming combines the advantages of object manipulation with programmable hardware, which plays an essential role in improving programming skills. As a tool for ensuring the quality of projects and improving learning outcomes, the PDCA cycle strategy is conducive to cultivating reflective thinking. However, there is still a lack of…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Outcomes of Education, Reflection
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Gerard Dummer; Elwin Savelsbergh; Paul Drijvers – Informatics in Education, 2025
Programmed control systems are ubiquitous in the present-day world. In current educational practice, however, these systems are hardly being addressed, and little is known about children's spontaneous understandings about such systems. Therefore, we explored pupils' understandings prior to instruction in three concrete settings: a car park, an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6, Computer Science Education
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Chih-Hung Chen; Hsiang-Yu Chung – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Computational thinking (CT) has gained considerable attention and in-depth discussion over the last two decades. Although the significance of CT has been highlighted, it could be challenging for educators to teach CT. Fortunately, adopting robots in education has been evidenced to be of benefit to promoting students' learning motivation, CT, and…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Programming
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Kyungbin Kwon; Thomas A. Brush; Keunjae Kim; Minhwi Seo – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
This study examined the effects of embodied learning experiences on students' understanding of computational thinking (CT) concepts and their ability to solve CT problems. In a mixed-reality learning environment, students mapped CT concepts, such as sequencing and loops, onto their bodily movements. These movements were later applied to robot…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Robotics, Programming
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Tengler, Karin; Kastner-Hauler, Oliver; Sabitzer, Barbara; Lavicza, Zsolt – Education Sciences, 2022
Robotics is needed as education keeps up with challenges students are facing in a technological environment. A long-term research project focuses on developing a feasible robotics-based learning environment that enables primary school teachers to introduce computer science education. This paper shows educational robotics combining storytelling to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Baichang Zhong; Xiaofan Liu; Shuiyan Huang – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
While pair learning (PL) is considered a potential method in STEM education including robotics education (RE), the question of how to pair students for superior learning effects remains. Current grouping strategies for PL in RE are constrained by fixed grouping (FG) and short of attention to dynamic grouping (DG). Therefore, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education
Yogi, Jonathan Kimei – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Jung and Won's (2018) review of elementary school ER found a lack of understanding of instructional practices for ER with young children. Other researchers have called for further studies into what effective classroom orchestration and interaction look like within ER classrooms (Ioannou & Makridou, 2018; Xia & Zhong, 2019). This study was…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Robotics, Group Dynamics, Gender Differences
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Zhong, Baichang; Wang, Yanxia – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2021
Pair learning (PL) in robotics education is derived from pair programming, and impacted by many factors. Two important factors were identified including roles assignment and learning styles in this study. The roles assignment involved Driver-Navigator Pair and Software-Hardware Pair. For the learning style, the dimension of active/reflective was…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Role, Robotics, Cognitive Style
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Francesco C. Ugolini; Panagiotis Kakavas – Research on Education and Media, 2024
This study consists of a 17-year (2006-2021) systematic literature review on the effective instructional strategies for developing Computational Thinking (CT) in primary school students (K-5). The aim of this paper is to identify instructional strategies that have been implemented and evaluated by means of a pre- and post-test, with the aim of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Socratous, Chrysanthos; Ioannou, Andri – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The study aims to compare the effect of a structured versus an unstructured educational robotics (ER) curriculum on (a) the frequency and type of programming errors made by students in block-based programming, (b) their ability to debug a programme, and (c) their engagement in the learning process. The authors' hypothesis is that, in programming…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
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Qu, Jing Ru; Fok, Ping Kwan – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
This research focuses on student-robot interaction in the learning environment of robotics education (RE) and attempts to explore how it cultivates students' computational thinking (CT). Different from child-robot interactions as investigated in the social robot field, student-robot (S-R) interactions focus mainly on the process of interaction…
Descriptors: Robotics, Teaching Methods, Student Role, Thinking Skills
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Neutens, Tom; Barbion, Evelien; Coolsaet, Kris; wyffels, Francis – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
In the last few years, programming, computational thinking, and robotics are more frequently integrated into elementary education. This integration can be done in many different ways. However, it is still unclear which teaching methods work in which situations. To provide some clarity in this area, we compared two methods of integrating…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Robotics, Thinking Skills
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Ting-Chia Hsu; Ching Chang; Yi-Sian Liang – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
The study explored the effects of an interdisciplinary learning approach on developing students' English learning (EL) and computational thinking (CT) through two different game-based learning approaches. A quasi-experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach in terms of enhancing students' CT knowledge and their EL…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Arslan, Seda; Çelik, Yasar – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
Coding, which is among the 21st century skills, has been included in the curriculum of many countries in recent years from preschool to high school. Primary school teachers are very important in the teaching of coding. In this context, this study aims to reveal the coding education that primary school students receive and the contribution of this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Cheng, Po-Jen; Liao, Yuan-Hsun; Yu, Pao-Ta – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
With rising societal interest in the subject areas of science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM), a micro:bit robotics course with an online group study (OGS) system was designed to foster student learning anytime and anywhere. OGS enables the development of a learning environment that combines real-world and digital-world…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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