Do LEGO® mindstorms® motivate students in CS1?

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 438-442

  McWhorter, William I ^a   O'Connor, Brian C ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; LEGO; Motivation; Programming environments; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COURSE; CS1; GOAL ORIENTATIONS; LEGO; LEGO MINDSTORMS; MINDSTORMS; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; RESEARCH STUDIES; SELF EFFICACY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STUDENT MOTIVATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70449721383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1509019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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