This paper presents a study intended to investigate the effects on children’s career choices of the ROBOESTATE project, a summer camp aimed at intro-ducing boys, but especially girls, to STEMs through educational robotics ac-tivities. Our reflection focused mainly on two research questions: (RQ1) May a course designed like ROBOESTATE encourage students, in particular fe-male students, to pursue a STEM career? (RQ2) Did parents’ opinions about STEM careers for their daughters/sons change after ROBOESTATE, espe-cially for those who saw STEM careers as not practicable and/or not desira-ble? We conducted a quantitative and a qualitative analysis. Although the lim-ited 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.
Young girls and careers in science: may a course on robotics change girls’ aspirations about their future? The roboestate project / Mich, Ornella; Ghislandi, Patrizia. - In: QWERTY. - ISSN 1828-7344. - ELETTRONICO. - 2019:2(2019), pp. 88-109.
Young girls and careers in science: may a course on robotics change girls’ aspirations about their future? The roboestate project
Mich, Ornella;Ghislandi, Patrizia
2019-01-01
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 intro-ducing boys, but especially girls, to STEMs through educational robotics ac-tivities. Our reflection focused mainly on two research questions: (RQ1) May a course designed like ROBOESTATE encourage students, in particular fe-male students, to pursue a STEM career? (RQ2) Did parents’ opinions about STEM careers for their daughters/sons change after ROBOESTATE, espe-cially for those who saw STEM careers as not practicable and/or not desira-ble? We conducted a quantitative and a qualitative analysis. Although the lim-ited 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.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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