Students in an unstructured educational robotics curriculum show higher engagement in the learning process than peers in a structured curriculum¶
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q3 i? Students in the unstructured ER curriculum group outperformed their structured-curriculum peers in engagement levels. → Chrysanthos Socratous 2021
Evidence¶
Chrysanthos Socratous 2021¶
Chrysanthos Socratous, Andri Ioannou. (2021). Structured or unstructured educational robotics curriculum? A study of debugging in block-based programming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10056-x
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Engagement in the learning process was the third outcome in the quasi-experiment with two comparison groups (n = 35); the article reports the unstructured group "outperform their peers in terms of engagement levels". No effect size is printed.
"Yet, the students in the unstructured ER curriculum group outperform their peers in terms of engagement levels."
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Related Claims¶
- An unstructured educational robotics curriculum is associated with a significantly higher frequency of programming errors than a structured one in block-based programming with young learners — related
- Students in a structured educational robotics curriculum debug programs significantly more efficiently than peers in an unstructured curriculum — related
- The authors hypothesised that an unstructured ER curriculum might benefit debugging learning with young learners, but findings partly contradict this — related
- Young learners in block-based robotics programming make a common list of programming errors regardless of curriculum structure — related
- Structuring the discovery process can outperform unstructured environments, but effects depend on learner characteristics and the knowledge test used — related
- Structured CAI with spaced practice and spaced review produced better recall and retention than unstructured CAI — related
- Individual engagement with an educational robot yielded greater divergent-thinking gains than pair work — related
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Students in an unstructured educational robotics curriculum show higher engagement in the learning process than peers in a structured curriculum |
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Students in an unstructured educational robotics curriculum show higher engagement in the learning process than peers in a structured curriculum |
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2021 |
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