Formal measures of learning in a secondary school mobile robotics course

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1831-1836

  Nourbakhsh, Illah R ^a   Hamner, Emily ^a   Crowley, Kevin ^b   Wilkinson, Katie ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Educational robotics; Personal robotics

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS; PERSONAL ROBOTICS; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042671156     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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