Educational research
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The Leaphy Foundation is a great supporter of peer2peer education. Letting students teach other students helps students in many ways. Not only are skills trained in acquiring and replicating knowledge, but planning, organizing, leadership and knowledge transfer also automatically come into play.
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Peer2peer education is a relatively unknown phenomenon in current education, certainly in combination with robotics. The Leaphy Foundation has had very good experiences with this setup for years. To better understand why peer2peer education works so well together with robotics, we are conducting research into this from the foundation. This research is part of an initiative to bring more primary school students into contact with robotics, programming and technology. We make use of a unique concept in which upper secondary school students, under the supervision of a secondary education teacher, teach primary school students. This so-called nearpeer education in combination with robotics is very profitable. First of all, it is a cheap alternative to work with programming and robotics, both for primary and secondary schools. Through the lessons, pupils in primary school experience what programming is. And the students who teach these classes not only learn a lot about programming and robotics, but also about teaching, collaboration and planning.
This research is made possible by the postdoc VO grant provided by the University of Utrecht.
Researchers
Dr. Olivier van Beekum
Dr. Jos Tolboom
Prof. dr. Erik Barendsen
This research is made possible by the postdoc VO grant provided by the University of Utrecht.
Researchers
Dr. Olivier van Beekum
Dr. Jos Tolboom
Prof. dr. Erik Barendsen
Publications
The Effect of Robotics Education on Gender Differences in STEM Attitudes among Dutch 7th and 8th Grade Students
Nora van Wassenaer, Jos Tolboom and Olivier van Beekum
Educ. Sci. 2023, 13(2), 139
The relation between computational thinking and logical thinking in the context of robotics education
Kim Veenman, Jos L. J. Tolboom and Olivier van Beekum
Front. Educ., 05 October 2022, Sec. STEM Education
De Vink, I. C., Tolboom, J. L. J., and Van Beekum, O. (2022). Exploring the effects
of near-peer teaching in robotics education: the role of STEM attitudes. Inform.
Educ.
The Effect of Robotics Education on Gender Differences in STEM Attitudes among Dutch 7th and 8th Grade Students
Nora van Wassenaer, Jos Tolboom and Olivier van Beekum
Educ. Sci. 2023, 13(2), 139
The relation between computational thinking and logical thinking in the context of robotics education
Kim Veenman, Jos L. J. Tolboom and Olivier van Beekum
Front. Educ., 05 October 2022, Sec. STEM Education
De Vink, I. C., Tolboom, J. L. J., and Van Beekum, O. (2022). Exploring the effects
of near-peer teaching in robotics education: the role of STEM attitudes. Inform.
Educ.
