Grouping matters in computational robotic activities

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Highlights:

• Group composition matters when students are working on collaborative robotics projects.

• Group roles have impacts on student computational thinking skills and robotics performances.

• Group roles have no impact on learning motivation towards computer programming.

• Gender did not impact groups' robotics performance and computational thinking skills.

• Gender did not impact learning motivation towards computer programming.

摘要

•Group composition matters when students are working on collaborative robotics projects.•Group roles have impacts on student computational thinking skills and robotics performances.•Group roles have no impact on learning motivation towards computer programming.•Gender did not impact groups' robotics performance and computational thinking skills.•Gender did not impact learning motivation towards computer programming.

论文关键词:Computational robotics,STEM education,Computational thinking,Robotics performance,Learning motivation towards computer programming,Robotics in music composition

论文评审过程:Received 6 August 2018, Revised 4 December 2018, Accepted 6 December 2018, Available online 7 December 2018, Version of Record 12 December 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.010