A four-hour e-textile workshop significantly increased young novices' ability to draw a functional circuit, from 12 of 22 (55%) at pre-test to 19 of 22 (86%) at post-test¶

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q2 i? Students' ability to create accurate representations of a simple circuit significantly increased from pre- to post-test after a four-hour e-textile workshop (p = .016), with functional circuit drawing rising from 12 (55%) to 19 (86%) students. → Ioannou 2025

Evidence¶

Ioannou 2025¶

Ioannou, A., Miliou, O., Georgiou, Y., Timotheou, S., Barkhuus, L., & Rode, J. (2025). Learning design for short-duration e-textile workshops: outcomes on knowledge and skills. Education Tech Research Dev, 73, 443–463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10411-8

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Pre/post knowledge exercise with n = 22 children (11 boys, 11 girls, mean age 12.7, SD = 1.26) in a four-hour workshop; dichotomous coding per Peppler and Glosson's rubric analyzed with McNemar's tests. "19 students (86%) were able to draw a functional circuit, up from 12 (55%)"; no control group.

"Our findings showed that students' ability to create accurate representations of a simple circuit significantly increased (p = .016) from pre- to post-test (see for example, Fig. 3). Specifically, by the end of the e-textile workshop, 19 students (86%) were able to draw a functional circuit, up from 12 (55%), prior to the workshop."

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• Drawing 2D circuit diagrams before crafting served as a crucial visualization step that surfaced misconceptions and enabled early facilitator feedback — related
• Group circuit diagrams triangulated the individual gains: three pairs moved from incorrect to correct designs, seven pairs were correct at both tests, and one pair produced a flawed post-test circuit — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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• The four-hour workshop documented no advancement in children's coding skills, with final code closely resembling the demonstrated sample code — related