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The Nuts and Bolts of Robotics in K-12 Classrooms: A Literature Synthesis

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

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June 26, 2021

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 19

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Pre-College Engineering Education

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Diversity

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10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--35352

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Tianshi Fu

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Molly H. Goldstein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-2382-4745

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Molly H. Goldstein is an engineering design educator and researcher at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She previously worked as an environmental engineer specializing in air quality influencing her focus in engineering design with environmental concerns. Her research interests include how students approach decision making in an engineering design context. She obtained her BS in General Engineering (Systems & Design) and MS in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering from the University of Illinois and PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University.

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Holly M. Golecki University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Holly Golecki is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to the move to Illinois, Holly spent 5 years as a teacher and director of robotics at a K12 private school. While there, she started a soft robotics research group for high school students. Now at the University of Illinois, she studies impacts of such pre-college engineering programs with the perspective of the classroom teacher in mind. Holly received her BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University and her PhD in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University.

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Abstract

Robotics have been used in pre-college classrooms as well as out of school environments increasingly over the last two decades as an active learning approach to engaging and challenging students with STEM concepts. Recent studies have taken comprehensive approaches to understand and synthesize benefits of robotics education with respect to 1) general effectiveness of educational robotics; (2) students’ learning and transfer skills; (3) creativity and motivation; (4) diversity and broadening participation; and (5) teachers’ professional development. This current work in progress aims to take a step back from the clear benefits in order to categorize the different ways that robotics education is presented in and out of the classroom. Results from this study will inform the development of an assessment tool to understand the effectiveness of educational robotics for different contexts with respect to students’ learning and transfer skills.

Fu, T., & Goldstein, M. H., & Golecki, H. M. (2020, June), The Nuts and Bolts of Robotics in K-12 Classrooms: A Literature Synthesis Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35352

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