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The Ideal Science Student: Exploring the Relationship of Students' Perceptions to Their Problem Solving Activity in a Robotics Context
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Sullivan, Florence; Lin, Xiadong – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of middle school students' perceptions of the ideal science student to their problem solving activity and conceptual understanding in the applied science area of robotics. Twenty-six 11 and 12 year-olds (22 boys) attending a summer camp for academically advanced students participated in the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Statistical Analysis, Robotics, Problem Solving
Nature-Computer Camp 1991. Chapter 2 Program Evaluation Report.
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District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1992
The District of Columbia Public Schools Nature Computer Camp (NCC) is an environmental/computer program which has been operating in the Catoctin Mountain Park (Maryland) since 1983. The camp operates for five one-week sessions serving a total of 406 regular sixth-grade students representing 84 elementary schools with an average of 81 students per…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Environmental Education, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Nature-Computer Camp. Final Evaluation Report 1984-1985. E.C.I.A. Chapter 2.
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), a science- and technology-oriented program for sixth-grade students from the District of Columbia Public Schools. The NCC experience is designed to offer students opportunities in such environmentally-related areas as woodland ecology, stream ecology, geology, as…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Ecology, Environmental Education
Computers in the Forest: A Summer Alternative. A Description and Evaluation of the Nature Computer Camp.
Prom, Sukai; And Others – 1984
The District of Columbia's Nature Computer Camp program, described and evaluated in this paper, was designed to reduce the geographical isolation of economically disadvantaged urban sixth graders, and to provide them with increased knowledge of the environmental and computer sciences. The paper begins by giving details of the program's management,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Environmental Education
Nature-Computer Camp. Final Evaluation Report. E.C.I.A. Chapter 2.
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1986
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), an environmental and computer science program designed for sixth grade students in the District of Columbia public schools. Inputs, processes and outcomes based on a Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model are reviewed for each of the four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
The Nature-Computer Camp. Final Evaluation Report, 1984-1985. E.C.I.A. Chapter 2.
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
This report presents a description and evaluation of the Nature-Computer Camp (NCC), an environmental and computer science program designed for sixth grade students in the District of Columbia public schools. Inputs, processes and outcomes based on a Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model are reviewed for each of the four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education