Autor según el artículo: Schina, Despoina; Usart, Mireia; Esteve-Gonzalez, Vanessa
Departamento: Pedagogia
Autor/es de la URV: Esteve Gonzalez, Vanessa / Schina, Despoina / Usart Rodríguez, Mireia
Palabras clave: Quality education Gender studies First® lego® league competition Educational robotics
Resumen: © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. Robotics Competitions as FIRST LEGO® League (FLL) Competition are gaining more and more popularity, however, what are the participants learning? The present study investigates participants’ perceptions regarding their learning with FLL Competition. In particular, it explores participants’ perceptions about their learning about the world, learning to solve problems, learning to engage, learning to apply knowledge, learning to communicate, learning to apply the technology cycle, studies participants’ perceptions on the competition activities, but, more importantly, it explores gender differences in students’ perceptions about their learning in the competition. A quantitative methodology is used, a questionnaire collecting data on participants’ perceptions was first validated by a team of experts and then completed by 84 participants of the Finals of FLL Competition 2018 in Greece. Results show that participants’ perceptions on their learning are very positive: (a) they report that they enjoy taking part in the competition as they are engaged in activities of their preference, (b) participants consider the competition as a great opportunity for learning about real word problems and for the acquisition of skills in STEM areas of studies, (c) participants view that they acquire social, collaborative and communication skills and (d) regarding gender, females tend to be more engaged, enthusiastic, creative, eager to experiment and more likely to adopt collaborative strategies than males.
Áreas temáticas: Engenharias iv Engenharias i Ciência da computação Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 2194-5357
Direcció de correo del autor: vanessa.esteve@urv.cat mireia.usart@urv.cat vanessa.esteve@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-5909-1099 0000-0003-4372-9312 0000-0001-5909-1099
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-11-16
Volumen de revista: 1023
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-26945-6_28
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Advances In Intelligent Systems And Computing. 1023 313-324
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Schina, Despoina; Usart, Mireia; Esteve-Gonzalez, Vanessa (2020). Participants’ perceptions about their learning with first LEGO® league competition – A gender study. HEIDELBERG: Springer
DOI del artículo: 10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_28
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2020
Tipo de publicación: Proceedings Paper