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Record W2883291320 · doi:10.69520/jipe.v1i1.37

Learning Code using Lego Robotics

2018· article· en· W2883291320 on OpenAlex
Adam Thomas, George Paravantes

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of innovation in polytechnic education. · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicTeaching and Learning Programming
Canadian institutionsHumber Polytechnic
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtificial intelligenceRoboticsCode (set theory)Computer scienceComputer visionProgramming languageRobot

Abstract

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Learning to code has a reputation for being difficult (Gomes & Mendes, 2007; Jenkins, 2002), and requires a variety of skills, such as math and complex problem solving, that are challenging for many students (Foote, 2014; Gomes & Mendes, 2007; Jenkins, 2002)—especially for those students beginning a college program (Oblinger, 2003). Often, students experience high levels of anxiety even before a programming course has started (Jenkins, 2002). This is particularly true for students who are required to take a course in coding, but who do not plan to continue on to a career in this field. Anecdotally, these students find the fundamentals of code difficult, and often end up “hacking” their way through the course. One approach to addressing this anxiety that has been used with children and youth is to teach code using robotics (Kurebayashi, Kamada, & Kanemune, 2006; McGill, 2012). Learning to code using robotics was found to have many positive effects: a) it allows students to more easily connect individual lines of code to their result (Kurebayashi et al., 2006); b) it stimulates intrinsic motivation (Kurebayashi et al., 2006; McGill, 2012); and c) it increases overall student grades (McGill, 2012).However, there is little to no literature on this type of approach with adult learners. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to look at the effects of incorporating robotics in a playful context (Plass, Homer, & Kinzer, 2015), in a series of “Introduction to Coding” courses at the post secondary level.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.732
Threshold uncertainty score0.350

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it