Computational Thinking and Robotics in Mixed Environments
Tanya Chichekian, Joel Trudeau, Tawfiq Jawhar, Yimei Zhang · Proceedings. · 2023
This study examined how educational robotics fostered college students' computational thinking skills in virtual and physical learning environments.Students from a traditional (N = 33) and an active-learning (N = 35) classroom completed surveys, problemsolving tasks, and robotics navigation challenges in virtual and physical learning environments.After one semester, students' computational thinking skills increased, but varied based on gender and performance in the problem-solving tasks.Students in the traditional classroom benefited from the virtual learning environment.