Young Girls and Scientific Careers: may a course on robotics change girls’ aspirations about their future? The ROBOESTATE project

IF 0.4 Q4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS Qwerty Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.30557/qw000019

O. Mich, P. Ghislandi

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Abstract

This paper presents a study intended to investigate the effects on children’s career choices of the ROBOESTATE project, a summer camp aimed at introducing boys, but especially girls, to STEMs through educational robotics activities. Our reflection focused mainly on two research questions: (RQ1) May a course designed like ROBOESTATE encourage students, in particular female students, to pursue a STEM career? (RQ2) Did parents’ opinions about STEM careers for their daughters/sons change after ROBOESTATE, especially for those who saw STEM careers as not practicable and/or not desirable? We conducted a quantitative and a qualitative analysis. Although the limited number of data collected during ROBOESTATE does not allow us to give a statistical significance to our results, we can say that ROBOESTATE-like courses increase boys’, and especially girls’, interest in STEM careers.

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年轻女孩和科学事业:机器人课程会改变女孩对未来的期望吗?ROBOESTATE项目

本文提出了一项研究，旨在调查ROBOESTATE项目对儿童职业选择的影响，ROBOESTATE项目是一个旨在通过教育机器人活动向男孩(尤其是女孩)介绍stem的夏令营。我们的思考主要集中在两个研究问题上:(RQ1)像ROBOESTATE这样设计的课程是否会鼓励学生，尤其是女学生，追求STEM职业?(RQ2)在《机器人庄园》之后，父母对女儿/儿子从事STEM职业的看法是否发生了变化，尤其是那些认为STEM职业不可行和/或不理想的父母?我们进行了定量和定性分析。虽然在ROBOESTATE期间收集的数据数量有限，不能让我们给出统计意义上的结果，但我们可以说，类似ROBOESTATE的课程增加了男孩，尤其是女孩对STEM职业的兴趣。

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Qwerty COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-

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15.40%

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