The Effect of Lego Mindstorms Ev3 Based Design Activities on Students' Attitudes towards Learning Computer Programming, Self-efficacy Beliefs and Levels of Academic Achievement

Abstract

The aim of the study was to present the effect of Lego Mindstorms Ev3 based design activities on students' attitudes towards learning computer programming, self-efficacy beliefs and levels of academic achievement. The research is a pretest-posttest with control group semi-experimental study. The study group of the research consisted of 53 students attending the faculty of engineering. The experimental group was administered a teaching method with Lego Mindstorms Ev3 based design activities. On the other hand, in the control group C++ topics were directly taught via editor. Research data were collected via the implementing academic achievement test (Kr-20= 0.71), attitude towards learning programming scale (Cronbach's Alpha =0.84) and computer programming self-efficacy scale (Cronbach's Alpha= 0.966). Obtained findings were: The education using Lego Mindstorms Ev3 design activities contributed more meaningfully to the academic success of the students in terms of C++ programming language compared to the traditional method.