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Integrating educational robot and low-cost self-made toys to enhance STEM learning performance for primary school students

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  • Chih-Chien Hu
  • Yu-Fen Yang
  • Ya-Wen Cheng
  • Nian-Shing Chen

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The application of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education in solving real-world problems is challenging. To tackle this challenge, a project-based learning approach that integrates robots with cost-effective self-made toys to problem-solving was adopted to assist rural primary school students to apply STEM skills. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the project-based learning approach which includes lecturing and hands-on activities on primary school students’ STEM learning outcomes and attitudes. An experiment was conducted with 25 primary school students who voluntarily participated in a STEM summer-camp programme. Students were asked to assemble a paper house equipped with an IoT control module and LED light switches, and write and edit robot scripts to produce a robot-based storytelling narrative using the paper house they made as a context. The results show that the project-based learning approach was an effective approach for cultivating primary school students’ STEM knowledge and skills as evidenced from the post-written test. The relationships between the students’ STEM learning outcomes and attitudes were also confirmed by a clustering analysis. Students who had higher learning attitudes also achieved higher STEM learning outcomes; the findings are also supported by the feedback from the open-ended questionnaire items. This study suggests that integrating low-cost self-made toys and robots in project-based learning activities is an effective and practical approach to enhance primary school students’ learning outcomes and learning attitudes in STEM education.

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  • Chih-Chien Hu & Yu-Fen Yang & Ya-Wen Cheng & Nian-Shing Chen, 2024. "Integrating educational robot and low-cost self-made toys to enhance STEM learning performance for primary school students," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(8), pages 1614-1635, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:43:y:2024:i:8:p:1614-1635
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2023.2222308
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