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Mutual Modelling Ability for a Humanoid Robot: How can it improve my learning as we solve a problem together?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman

2021

Dataset for the evaluation of student-level outcomes of a primary school Computer Science curricular reform

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

The associated peer reviewed article that will appear in the International Journal of STEM education : El-Hamamsy, L., Bruno, B., Audrin, C., Chevalier, M., Avry S., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F. (2023). How are Primary School Computer Science Curri ...

Zenodo2023

Dataset for the comparison of two Computational Thinking (CT) test for upper primary school (grades 3-4) : the Beginners' CT test (BCTt) and the competent CT test (cCTt)

Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

This dataset contains quantitative student data acquired during the administration of two validated Computational Thinking (CT) assessments for upper primary school (grades 3 and 4): the Beginners' CT test (BCTt) [1] and the comptent CT test (cCTt) [2] To ...

Zenodo2022

Studying Alignment in a Collaborative Learning Activity via Automatic Methods: The Link Between What We Say and Do

Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman

A dialogue is successful when there is alignment between the speakers at different linguistic levels. In this work, we consider the dialogue occurring between interlocutors engaged in a collaborative learning task, where they are not only evaluated on how ...

2022

Evaluation of teachers’ orchestration tools usage in robotic classrooms

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Aditi Kothiyal, Sina Shahmoradi

Teachers’ self-efficacy in managing classrooms is an important consideration when it comes to bringing educational robots to classrooms. Orchestration tools support teachers by providing awareness indicators of students’ progress as well as levers to contr ...

2023

The iReCheck project: using tablets and robots for personalised handwriting practice

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Chenyang Wang, David Cohen

Handwriting is an important skill in children development as well as in education that take years to be mastered. While keyboards and similar technological devices increasingly become more popular, new tools and engaging approaches are also required to kee ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Many are the ways to learn: Identifying multi-modal behavioral profiles of collaborative learning in constructivist activities (vol 16, pg 485, 2021)

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir, Aditi Kothiyal

SPRINGER2022

A case for co-construction with teachers in curricular reform: Introducing computer science in primary school

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Helena Kovacs

With the introduction of Computer Science (CS) into curricula worldwide, researchers have investigated whether CS could be introduced transversally, as a support other disciplines. Few however consider both student learning and the teachers’ perspective in ...

ACM2022

Comparing the psychometric properties of two primary school Computational Thinking (CT) assessments for grades 3 and 4: The Beginners' CT test (BCTt) and the competent CT test (cCTt)

Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Introduction: With the increasing amount of research around Computational Thinking (CT) and endeavors introducing CT into curricula worldwide, assessing CT at all levels of formal education is of utmost importance to ensure that CT-related learning objecti ...

Frontiers Media2022

An adapted cascade model to scale primary school digital education curricular reforms and teacher professional development programs

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Gregory Vivian Raymond Liegeois

Many countries struggle to effectively introduce Digital Education (DE) to all K-12 students as they lack adequately trained teachers. While cascade models of in-service teacher-professional development (PD) can rapidly deploy PD-programs through multiple ...

2023

Correction: How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps (vol 10, 60, 2023)

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

2023

The symbiotic relationship between educational robotics and computer science in formal education

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Educational Robotics (ER) has the potential to provide significant benefits to edu-cation, provided an increase in outreach by transitioning from the extra-curricular initiatives in which ER has thrived to formal education. As Computer Science (CS) Educati ...

2021

The Competent Computational Thinking Test (cCTt): A Valid, Reliable and Gender-Fair Test for Longitudinal CT Studies in Grades 3-6

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

The introduction of computing education into curricula worldwide requires multi-year assessments to evaluate the long-term impact on learning. However, no single Computational Thinking (CT) assessment spans primary school, and no group of CT assessments pr ...

SPRINGER2025

What Teachers Need for Orchestrating Robotic Classrooms

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Aditi Kothiyal, Sina Shahmoradi

Educational Robots are gaining popularity in classrooms but can increase the load on teachers compared to the use of more traditional technologies. Providing support to teachers can make teachers confident in including robots in their teaching routines. In ...

Springer, Cham2019

Dataset for the validation of a Computational Thinking test for upper primary school (grades 3-4)

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

This dataset contains quantitative student data acquired during the administration of a new computational thinking assessment for upper primary school (grades 3 and 4). Over 1500 students (approximately half in grade 3 and half in grade 4) participated in ...

2022

Dataset for the publication "The TACS Model: Understanding Teachers' Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content in Primary School"

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse an in service teacher training program for Computer Science that took place from September 2019 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. Approximately 180 teachers from the the 5th ...

2022

Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots

Laura Mathex, Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Melissa Anne Skweres, Taavet Kangur

Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with resistance, especially in primary school. To address this issue, this study ...

Springer, Cham2021

Dataset for the evaluation of a large-scale in-service K-4 teacher-training program for computer science and robotics

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse an in service teacher training program that took place from September 2018 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. Approximately 350 teachers from the first four grades of primary ...

Zenodo2021

Efficacy of a ‘Misconceiving’ Robot to Improve Computational Thinking in a Collaborative Problem Solving Activity: A Pilot Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman

Robot-mediated learning activities are often designed as collaborative exercises where children work together to achieve the activity objectives. Although miscommunications and misunderstandings occur frequently, humans, unlike robots, are very good at ove ...

2022

Dataset for the evaluation of the scalability of a primary school Digital Education curricular reform

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Corresponding article : El-Hamamsy, L.*, Monnier, E.-C. *, Chessel-Lazzarotto F., Liégeois G., Bruno, B., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F. (2023). An Adapted Cascade Model to Scale Primary School Digital Education Curricular Reforms and Teacher Profess ...

Zenodo2023