The Role of Robotics Education in Creativity Development of Secondary Level Students

The Role of Robotics Education in Creativity Development of Secondary Level Students

  This paper presents the impact of robotics education in creativity development of secondary level students in the Philippines. The robotics education consists of formal twelve training sessions that use mobile robot kits as the platform. These robot kits are to be assembled and programmed by the students suited for different environment. The goal of this research is to reveal the difference between the creativity level of students who have undergone robotics education/training and those who have not. H has been found that robotics educational/training actually improves the creativity level of students. Therefore, it is important to integrate robotics subjects in the curricula of secondary level education. This study was conducted with 40 students from the secondary school in the Philippines. These students were randomly selected and categorized into two groups(the experimental group and the control group. The students in the experimental group underwent 12 sessions of robotics education/ training, whereas the students in the control group did not involve in any of the robotics sessions. The experiment revealed that robotics education/training contributes to more than 10% of the students" creativity improvement.