We are studying the impact of the Arts & Bots program on students’ motivation, confidence, and learning with respect to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
Publications (APA formatted citations, last updated December 2017)
Cross, J. (2010, May). Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning.(Doctoral dissertation). Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-17-30, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2017). Student Outcomes from the Evaluation of a Transdisciplinary Middle School Robotics Program. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana.
Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., Nourbakhsh, I., and Bernstein, D. (2016). Development of an Assessment for Measuring Middle School Student Attitudes towards Robotics Activities. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2016). Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in Middle School Students: a Framework for Defining and Recognizing Student Affinities. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
Hamner, E., Zito, L., Cross, J., Slezak, B., Mellon, S., Harapko, H., and Welter, M. (2016). Utilizing Engineering to Teach Non-Technical Disciplines: Case Studies of Robotics within Middle School English and Health Classes. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
Hamner, E., Cross, J., Zito, L., Bernstein, D., and Mutch-Jones, K. (2016). Training Teachers to Integrate Engineering into Non- Technical Middle School Curriculum. In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, Pennsylvania.
Bernstein, D., Mutch-Jones, K., Hamner, E., and Cross, J. (2015). Robots and Romeo and Juliet: Studying Teacher Integration of Robotics into Middle School Curricula. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC.
Cross, J., & Hamner, E. (2014, June). Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics. In proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
Cross, J., Bartley, C., Hamner, E., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2013, May 7). A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education. In proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Hamner, E., & Cross, J. (2013, March 9). Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM robotics program through K-12 classrooms. In proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ.
Gomez, K., Bernstein, D., Zywica, J., & Hamner, E. (2012). Building Technical Knowledge and Engagement in Robotics: An Examination of two Out-of-School Programs. B. Barker, G. Nugent, N. Grandgenett, & V. Adamchuk (Eds.), Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning (pp. 222-244). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
Bernstein, D.L. (2010). Developing technological fluency through creative robotics (Doctoral dissertation).
Lauwers, T. (2010, May). Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals (Doctoral dissertation). Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-10-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., & Bernstein, D. (2010, March). The debugging task: Evaluating a robotics design workshop. In proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium: Educational Robotics and Beyond.
Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., Bernstein, D., Stubbs, K., Crowley, K., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2008, May). Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-08-25. Pittsburgh, PA: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., Bernstein, D., Nourbakhsh, I. R., & DiSalvo, C. F. (2008, March). Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration. In proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium: Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science (pp. 38-43).
Nourbakhsh, I. R., DiSalvo, C. F., Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., & Bernstein, D. (2007). Robot Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Design and Evaluate Educational Robotics. In proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium: Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics (pp. 56-58).