Examining the attitudes of middle school students towards robotic coding
Ezgi Pelin Yıldız · Environment and Social Psychology · 2025
Coding is a language that enables communication through the utilization of information and communication technologies, and coding education is very important in providing individuals with 21st-century skills. Previous studies reported that coding education is not just about creating a program, but also that it can offer original solutions to the problems that students encounter. Coding education, which is included in the education of information and communication technologies, allows students to gain many skills. Coding education provides students with the skills of problem solving, creative thinking, analytical thinking, identifying the relationships between events or situations, noticing their own mistakes, and analyzing their consequences. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the attitudes of middle school students towards robotic coding. The study sample consists of 304 students enrolled at the middle school level of a private college in Kars-Türkiye. The data collection was performed by utilizing the attitude scale towards coding, which was developed by Yalcın, Kahraman and Yılmaz, and the validity and reliability of which were established. Since the obtained data exhibited a normal distribution, the independent sample t-test and ANOVA test were employed in the analysis. It was determined that male students’ attitudes towards robotic coding were higher. In addition, it was determined that the attitudes of students showed significant differences by variables such as gender, age, classroom, daily internet use time, and daily smartphone use time. Given the results achieved, the present study is expected to guide future studies and can be used as a guide model in this context.