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Bih Epse Fofang Janet Shufor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Computational thinking (CT) has been supported as an important skill every young person should possess for the 21st century, with possible implications for problem-solving, self-expression, and creativity. Numerous initiatives, both within and outside classroom settings, have been developed in response to policy mandates aiming at broadening…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Assistive Technology
Eure, Kimberly Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Technology is utilized in everyday life. As such, teachers can employ educational robots and technology to assist in growing skills in collaboration, communication, computational thinking, and problem-solving. Educational robots also appear to increase engagement and motivation in students to participate in lessons. This study employed…
Descriptors: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Madeline Halkowski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present study employed an alternating treatment design to examine the use of a socially assistive robot on the educational outcomes of children with severe symptoms of autism spectrum disorder. Participants included three children, ages 5-7 years old, recruited from a public elementary school in the Northeastern United States. The study…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Robotics, Elementary School Students, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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
Cruz, Ingrid Lorelei J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Research in this study investigated the effectiveness of robotics in promoting the critical thinking skills of middle school students in a public school classroom setting. The research began with an analysis of the effect of educational robotics in improving the critical thinking skills of middle school students. The researcher then sought to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Pretests Posttests
Liles, Karina – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research presents a new, socially adaptive robot tutor, Ms. An ("M"eeting "S"tudents' "A"cademic "N"eeds). The goal of this research was to use a decision tree model to develop a socially adaptive robot tutor that predicted and responded to student emotion and performance to actively engage students in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Robotics, Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction
Munn, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This research study explored robotics as the catalyst for computational thinking (CT) by sixth-grade students as they are engaged in a science lesson. The interactions, understandings, and applications are discussed, along with the participants' connections and implementations of CT concepts (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 6, Units of Study, Science Instruction
Vivo, Christian P. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examines what STEM teachers do to promote transformative experiences amongst their students. There is a need to increase the number of high school students entering the STEM pipeline in order to increase the number of STEM college graduates in the United States (NCES, 2009). Transformative experiences have been shown to be effective in…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Transformative Learning, College Preparation, Teaching Methods
Sheehy, Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Addition of fractions is an important foundation for students to experience success in mathematics. This mixed-methods study was conducted to measure the effectiveness of robotics as a mathematics manipulative with seventh grade students. Two groups of students were established: control and treatment. The control group received teacher-centered…
Descriptors: Robotics, Mathematics Instruction, Mixed Methods Research, Mathematical Concepts
Bianca Rodrigue Deliberto – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This embedded mixed methods study investigates the development of rural elementary students' conceptual understanding of force and motion as a result of the implementation of robotics instruction immersed within a 5E Learning Cycle Model lessons. Three treatment groups and one controlled comparison group (n = 96) participated in pretests and…
Descriptors: Robotics, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Motion
Cheng, Pericles L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Digital Agenda for Europe (2015) states that there will be 825,000 unfilled vacancies for Information and Communications Technology by 2020. This lack of IT professionals stems from the small number of students graduating in computer science. To retain more students in the field, teachers can use remote robotic experiments to explain difficult…
Descriptors: Intention, Robotics, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers
Kwah, Helen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This thesis explores the questions of how a teacher guides students to see concepts, and the role of gesture and gesture viewpoints in mediating the process of guidance. To examine these questions, two sociocultural theoretical frameworks--Radford's cultural-semiotic theory of knowledge objectification (e.g., 2003), and Goldman's Points of Viewing…
Descriptors: Robotics, Programming, Teaching Methods, Guidance
Grimes, Mary Katheryn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Multicultural Science has been a topic of research and discourse over the past several years. However, most of the literature concerning this topic (or paradigm) has centered on programs in tribal or Indigenous schools. Under the framework of instructional congruence, this case study explored how elementary and middle school students in a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Multicultural Education, Robotics, Case Studies
Ortiz, Araceli Martinez – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The research described in this dissertation explores the impact of utilizing a LEGO-robotics integrated engineering and mathematics program to support fifth grade students' learning of ratios and proportion in an extracurricular program. The research questions guiding this research study were (1) how do students' test results compare for students…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Urban Schools