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Middle-school students’ attitudes and intentions regarding future STEM studies following robotics activities

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Leading team:

  • Prof. Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari

Project team:

  • Dr. Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy

Brief

This study uses the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the attitudes and future intentions of middle-school students regarding STEM subjects, following their participation in robotics activities.

 

 

The project focused on students’ attitudes and intentions regarding STEM studies following their participation in either extra-curricular (such as competitions) or curricular activities involving robotics. The findings indicated positive effects on students' intentions to select STEM subjects in high school.

Further reading:

  • Ben-Bassat Levy, R., & Ben-Ari, M. (2015). Robotics activities—Is the investment worthwhile? In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools (ISSEP'15), Ljubljana, Slovenia. In A. Brodnik & J. Vahrenhold (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9378, 22-31. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
  • Ben-Bassat Levy, R., & Ben-Ari, M. (2017). The Evaluation of Robotics Activities for Facilitating STEM Learning. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Robotics in Education, Sofia, Bulgaria. In W. Lepuschitz, M. Merdan, G. Koppensteiner, R. Balogh, & D. Obdržálek (Eds.), Robotics in Education, Recent Results and Developments, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 630, 132-137. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
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