Exploring the development of mental rotation and computational skills in elementary students through educational robotics

Diago, P. D.; González‐Calero, José Antonio; Yáñez, Dionisio F.

doi:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100388

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“…Analysis of data spanning from 2008 to May 2022 reveals a noteworthy increase in publications related to these areas, particularly evident in 2021. This upward trend indicates a growing interest [125] in leveraging GBL [29] to enhance CT skills and positively impact student learning. Contributions from regions such as North America (USA), Asia (Israel), and Europe (Spain) have been substantial and are expected to continue expanding.…”

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Study Trends and Core Content Trends of Research on Enhancing Computational Thinking: An Incorporated Bibliometric and Content Analysis Based on the Scopus Database

Chen,

Nguyen

2024

Computers

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Over the last decade, research on evolving computational thinking (CT) has garnered heightened attention. Assessing the publication tendencies and nucleus contents of investigations on progressing CT to direct future research initiatives, develop policies, and integrate them into instructional materials is timely and exceedingly essential in education. Therefore, this research reviewed publications on progressing CT to identify research trends and core contents published in the Scopus database from 2008 to May 2022. For this reason, this study applied bibliometric and content analysis to 132 selected publications. After examining bibliometrics, the findings indicate a steady increase in publications related to game-based learning (GBL) and CT, reaching a peak in 2021, with the United States emerging as the most prolific contributor in terms of authors, institutions, and countries). The leading country in citations is primarily China. The document that received the most citations is Hsu’s 2018 paper on “Computers and Education”. Analysis of keywords and themes reveals core content tendencies, emphasizing teaching methods and attitudes aimed at improving CT via GBL. These results offer valuable insights for researchers and educators to inform their future work. However, future studies may benefit from including other databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and PubMed, employing alternative bibliometric software like VOSviewer or CiteSpace, as well as collecting data from June 2022.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study Trends and Core Content Trends of Research on Enhancing Computational Thinking: An Incorporated Bibliometric and Content Analysis Based on the Scopus Database

Chen,

Nguyen

2024

Computers

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“…At all educational levels, experimental or quasi-experimental research with pre-post tests are proposed and based on different tests: some standardized as CT assessment test by Román-González et aland Map Test for Children by Peter et al (Diago et al, 2021), others constructed for specific cases. Only Chen et al (2017) describe the development of an instrument to assess CT levels for fifth-grade students for coding in robotics and reasoning of everyday events made of 15 multiple-choice and eight open-ended questions.…”

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A scoping review on the relationship between robotics in educational contexts and e-health

Sannicandro

Santis²,

Bellini³

et al. 2022

Front. Educ.

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In recent years, due to technological advancement, research has been directed to the development and analysis of resources and tools related to educational robotics with particular attention to the field of special needs and training actions aimed at learners, teachers, professionals, and families. The use of robotics in all levels of education can support the development of logical and computational thinking, interaction, communication, and socialization, and the acquisition of particularly complex work practices, for example, in the medical field. The adoption of successful educational robotics training practices can be a potential tool to support rehabilitation interventions for disabilities and comprehensive training for students or future professionals in healthcare. A scoping review was conducted on the main topics “education” AND “robotics” with three specific focuses on complementary themes in educational research about ER: (1) teaching and computational thinking, (2) training in the health sector, and (3) education and special needs. The authors systematically searched two online databases, Scopus and Web of Science, up to April 2022. A total of 164 articles were evaluated, and 59 articles were analyzed, in a particular way N = 33 related to computational thinking, N = 15 related to e-health, and N = 11 related to special needs. The following four questions guided our research: (1) What are the educational and experimental experiences conducted through robotics in transdisciplinary fields? (2) What tools and resources are most used in such experiments (educational robotics kit, humanoid robots, telepresence robots etc.)? (3) What are the constitutive elements of the experiments and studies involving robotics and health in educational contexts? and (4) What are those explicitly related to students with special needs? In this study, part of the research project “Robotics and E-health: new Challenges for Education” (RECE) activated at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. RECE aims to investigate the training, educational, cognitive, and legal processes induced by the increasing diffusion of educational robotics and telemedicine in clinical and surgical contexts.

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“…Overall, interpreting a map requires the conceptualization of space in terms of distance between objects, distribution and exact location of objects, and the involvement of high-order cognitive abilities (e.g., mental rotation, planning, and reasoning), which allow for thinking about a spatial scenario [ 11 ] and ensure successful navigation in terms of wayfinding, building recognition, spatial reorientation, and moving throughout a new town [ 12 , 13 ].…”

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Preschoolers’ Perceptual Analogical Reasoning and Map Reading: A Preliminary Study on the Mediating Effect of Spatial Language

et al. 2023

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Reading and interpreting a map represents an essential part of daily life, enabling appropriate orientation and navigation through space. Based on the idea that perceptual analogical reasoning is critical in aligning the spatial structure of the map with the spatial structure of the space and given the critical role of language, especially spatial language, in encoding and establishing spatial relations among elements in the environment, the present study investigated the joint contribution of perceptual analogical reasoning and spatial language in map reading. The study was conducted with 56 typically developing 4- to 6-year-old children, and the results indicated that perceptual abstract reasoning affected map reading through the mediating effect of spatial language. These findings yielded theoretical and practical implications regarding the role of perceptual abstract reasoning and spatial language in shaping map-reading abilities in the early stages of life, highlighting that domain-specific language competencies are necessary to improve the encoding of spatial relations, to establish object correspondences, and to ensure successful navigation. Limitations and future research directions were discussed.

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Exploring the development of mental rotation and computational skills in elementary students through educational robotics

Cited by 15 publications

References 44 publications

Study Trends and Core Content Trends of Research on Enhancing Computational Thinking: An Incorporated Bibliometric and Content Analysis Based on the Scopus Database

Study Trends and Core Content Trends of Research on Enhancing Computational Thinking: An Incorporated Bibliometric and Content Analysis Based on the Scopus Database

A scoping review on the relationship between robotics in educational contexts and e-health

Preschoolers’ Perceptual Analogical Reasoning and Map Reading: A Preliminary Study on the Mediating Effect of Spatial Language

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