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The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Vaios Papaspyros, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Evgeniia Bonnet

Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...

2022

Who's Helping Who? When Students Use ChatGPT to Engage in Practice Lab Sessions

Jérôme Guillaume Brender, Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Engin Walter Bumbacher

Little is understood about how chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) impact teaching and learning, and how to effectively integrate them into educational practices. This study examined whether and how using ChatGPT in a graduate-level robotics c ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program

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

Context: Introducing Computer Science (CS) into formal education can be challenging, notably when considering the numerous stakeholders involved which include the students, teachers, schools, and policy makers. We believe these perspectives should be con ...

2023

Modelling the sustainability of a primary school digital education curricular reform and professional development program

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier

Sustaining changes in teachers’ practices is a challenge that determines the success of curricular reforms, from which Digital Education (DE) is not exempt. As the literature on sustainability is considered “scarce” and “scattered”, long-term studies model ...

2023

Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform

Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Over the past few decades, the debates have shifted from whether to how Computer Science (CS) should be introduced into formal education. Given the diverse ways to introduce CS into formal education, and the struggles many countries have faced, considerabl ...

EPFL2023

The competent Computational Thinking Test: Development and Validation of an Unplugged Computational Thinking Test for Upper Primary School

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

With the increasing importance of Computational Thinking (CT) at all levels of education, it is essential to have valid and reliable assessments. Currently, there is a lack of such assessments in upper primary school. That is why we present the development ...

2022

Accessible Maker-based Approaches to Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Amaury Robert Dame, Aditya Mehrotra

Educational Robotics holds the potential to promote the development of important 21st century skills, such as creativity and problem-solving skills in addition to digital literacy. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has posed particular obstac ...

2021

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Alberto Piatti

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps

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

Background Early exposure to Computer Science (CS) and Computational Thinking (CT) for all is critical to broaden participation and promote equity in the field. But how does the introduction of CS and CT into primary school curricula impact learning, perce ...

2023

Extended dataset for the validation the competent Computational Thinking test in grades 3-6

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

Extended dataset for the validation the competent Computational Thinking test in grades 3-6 • If you publish material based on this dataset, please cite the following : • The Zenodo repository : Laila El-Hamamsy, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Dehler Zuffere ...

Zenodo2023

Investigating the Role of Educational Robotics in Formal Mathematics Education: The Case of Geometry for 15-Year-Old Students

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

Research has shown that Educational Robotics (ER) enhances student performance, interest, engagement and collaboration. However, until now, the adoption of robotics in formal education has remained relatively scarce. Among other causes, this is due to the ...

Springer, Cham2021

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

A Bebras Computational Thinking (ABC-Thinking) program for primary school: Evaluation using the competent computational thinking test

Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Bebras tasks are considered to develop Computational Thinking (CT) and are currently used for this purpose in many studies. However, the relationship between Bebras tasks and CT is recent and, given the scarcity of validated instruments for assessing CT th ...

Springer2024

Teachers’ Perspective on Fostering Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

With the introduction of educational robotics (ER) and computational thinking (CT) in classrooms, there is a rising need for operational models that help ensure that CT skills are adequately developed. One such model is the Creative Computational Problem S ...

Springer2021

Technology integration needs empowered instructional coaches: accompanying in-service teachers in school digitalization

Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry, Caroline Pulfrey, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Christiane Caneva

Purpose- In digital education curricular initiatives, some teachers are taking on key roles when appointed as instructional coaches (ICs) and become crucial in the sustainability of the initiative by coaching teachers. This study aimed to find out the diff ...

2023

The TACS Model: Understanding Primary School Teachers’ Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content

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

Context With the introduction of computer science (CS) into curricula worldwide, teachers’ adoption of CS-pedagogical content is essential to ensure the long-term success of reform initiatives. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs play a key ...

2022

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

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