Robotics education significantly boosts creativity of primary and junior secondary students but shows no significant effect on senior secondary students¶

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q3 i1 Junior secondary students' creativity is most significantly boosted (SMD = 0.607, P < 0.001), followed by primary students (SMD = 0.435, P < 0.001). → Hou 2022 q3 i? Robotics education has no significant effect on the creativity of senior secondary students. → Hou 2022

Evidence¶

Hou 2022¶

Hou, H., Zhang, X., & Wang, D. (2022). Can educational robots improve student creativity: A meta-analysis based on 48 experimental and quasi-experimental studies. Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 11(1):1449-1454. https://doi.org/10.15354/bece.22.ab001

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Moderator analysis by education level; the authors state the comparison focused on primary, junior secondary, and senior secondary students due to limited kindergarten and university sample sizes. No effect size was printed for the senior secondary null result.

"The creativity of junior secondary students is most significantly boosted by robotics education (SMD = 0.607, P < 0.001), followed by that of primary students (SMD = 0.435, P < 0.001), but it has no significant effect on the creativity of senior secondary students"

Discussion¶

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