Robotics education has a significant positive above-moderate effect on student creativity (SMD = 0.576)¶

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q3 i1 Meta-analysis of 48 experimental and quasi-experimental studies shows robotics education significantly improves student creativity, with a summary effect size of SMD = 0.576, an above-moderate level. → 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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Meta-analysis of 48 experimental and quasi-experimental studies with 6,057 samples, using Hedges' g as effect size. Both fixed and random effects models showed g greater than 0 with P-value less than 0.001; the summary effect was "SMD = 0.576".

"the analysis results of summary effect size (SMD = 0.576) in this study demonstrate that robotics education exerts an above-moderate positive impact on student creativity"

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