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标题：Effects of a summer robotics camp on students’ STEM career interest and knowledge structure
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作者：Ahmet Tekbıyık ; Demet Baran Bulut ; Yalçın Sandalcı 等
期刊名称：Journal of Pedagogical Research
电子版ISSN：2602-3717
出版年度：2022
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：91-109
DOI：10.33902/JPR.202212606
语种：English
出版社：Journal of Pedagogical Research
摘要：The present study focuses on the assessment of summer robotics camp designed for 7th grade students who were supposed to work on a STEM-related problem through modeling and design activities. It was exclusively investigated the effects of these activities on the STEM-related career interests and knowledge structures of students. The students were expected to develop basic robotics and design skills in the camp, and to use them in project design in the context of problem solving processes. The camp activities were designed in the alignment of P3 Task Taxonomy. A mixed design method was adapted in this study as it focused both on the effects of an experimental intervention and identification of the students’ conceptual constructs. Accordingly, simultaneous and sequential data collection techniques were used to provide satisfactory responses to the research questions. The results showed that the students the students’ career interest in engineering increased more significantly than the other STEM fields. Furthermore, word association tests that were applied before and after the camp, in order to assess the change in the students’ knowledge structures with the keywords Coding, Design, Problem, Modeling, Space, and Robot showed that the number of terms associated with these keywords were increased. In a nutshell, the education activity provided in the context of this study reinforced the students’ career interests in engineering in particular, and facilitated the development of their knowledge structures, and ability to define associations between terms.
关键词：STEM education;robotics;STEM career interest;knowledge structure;P3 task taxonomy