The Effect of Lego Mindstrom Eve 3 Based Design Activities on Students’ Attitudes towards Learning Computer Programming, Self-efficacy Beliefs and Levels of Academic Achievement
Özgen Korkmaz · Baltic Journal of Modern Computing · 2016
The aim of the study was to present the effect of Lego Mindstorms Ev3 based design activities on students' attitudes towards learning computer programming, self-efficacy beliefs and levels of academic achievement.The research is a pretest-posttest with control group semiexperimental study.The study group of the research consisted of 53 students attending the faculty of engineering.The experimental group was administered a teaching method with Lego Mindstorms Ev3 based design activities.On the other hand, in the control group C++ topics were directly taught via editor.Research data were collected via the implementing academic achievement test (Kr-20= 0.71), attitude towards learning programming scale (Cronbach's Alpha =0.84) and computer programming self-efficacy scale (Cronbach's Alpha= 0.966).Obtained findings were: The education using Lego Mindstorms Ev3 design activities contributed more meaningfully to the academic success of the students in terms of C++ programming language compared to the traditional method.