The Role of Robotics Teams’ Collaboration Quality on Team Performance in a Robotics Tournament
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Background Working effectively in teams is an important 21st century skill as well as a fundamental component of the ABET professional competencies. However, successful teamwork is challenging, and empirical studies with adolescents concerning how the collaboration quality of team members is related to team performance are limited. Purpose/Hypothesis This study investigated the relationship between team collaboration quality and team performance in a robotics competition using multiple measures of team performance, including both objective task performance and expert judge evaluations, on a diverse set of supporting performance dimensions. Design/Method Data included Table Score, Robot Design, Research Project, Core Values, and Collaboration Quality scores for 366 youths on 61 K‐8 robotics teams that participated in a FIRST LEGO League Championship. Regression and mediation analyses were conducted to explore the relation between effective team collaboration and team performance. Furthermore, analysis of variance was conducted to explore the relationship between Collaboration Quality and team experience. Results Collaboration Quality was a good predictor of robotics team performance across all measures (with R2 = .50 and p < .001). Mediation analysis revealed that the Robot Design acted as a full mediator for the predictive effect of Collaboration Quality on the Table Score. In addition, the cumulative amount of team experience was significantly related to Collaboration Qualit…
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K-12 educational robots and robotics competitions have emerged as highly popular educational activities that actively engage children in critical thinking and problem solving in team settings.
“K-12 educational robots and robotics competitions have emerged as highly popular educational activities that actively engage children in critical thinking and problem solving in team settings (Menekse, Higashi, Schunn, & Baehr, 2017).”
From A Systematic Review of Studies on Educational Robotics (2019) · cites this paper as Menekse et al., 2017
Prior studies argued that educational robotics and participation on a robotics team have the potential to significantly influence a child's academic and social skills by allowing them to actively engage in critical thinking and problem solving through designing, assembling, coding, operating, and modifying robots for specific goals.
“Prior studies argued that educational robotics and participation on a robotics team have the potential to significantly influence a child's academic and social skills by allowing them to actively engage in critical thinking and problem solving through designing, assembling, coding, operating, and modifying robots for specific goals (Menekse, Higashi, Schunn, & Baehr, 2017).”
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- Authors
- Menekse, M., Higashi, R., Schunn, C. D., & Baehr, E.
- Affiliations
- Purdue University
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Engineering Education
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 564-584
- ISSN
- 1069-4730 (ISSN-L)
- 2168-9830
- OpenAlex
- W2770420532
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 4.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Engineering Education (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Social Sciences › Education › Problem and Project Based Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Keywords
- team performance, FIRST LEGO League, K-8 students, robot design, team experience, teamwork skills, engineering competitions
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