Engaging high school students using Chatbots

Chatbots have been used in different scenarios for getting people interested in CS for decades. However, their potential for teaching basic concepts and their engaging effect has not been measured. In this paper we present a software platform called Chatbot designed to foster engagement while teachi...

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Autor principal: Schapachnik, Fernando Pablo
Publicado: 2014
Materias:
Chatbot
Computer science K-12 outreach
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
Engineering research
Teaching
K12 outreach
Students
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_97814503_v_n_p63_Benotti
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_97814503_v_n_p63_Benotti
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Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires
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spelling paper:paper_97814503_v_n_p63_Benotti2023-06-08T16:37:32Z Engaging high school students using Chatbots Schapachnik, Fernando Pablo Chatbot Computer science K-12 outreach Engagement Experimental evaluation Gender Engineering research Teaching Chatbot Engagement Experimental evaluation Gender K12 outreach Students Chatbots have been used in different scenarios for getting people interested in CS for decades. However, their potential for teaching basic concepts and their engaging effect has not been measured. In this paper we present a software platform called Chatbot designed to foster engagement while teaching basic CS concepts such as variables, conditionals and finite state automata, among others. We carried out two experiences using Chatbot and the well known platform Alice: 1) an online nation-wide competition, and 2) an inclass 15-lesson pilot course in 2 high schools. Data shows that retention and girl interest are higher with Chatbot than with Alice, indicating student engagement. © 2014 ACM. Fil:Schapachnik, F. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2014 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_97814503_v_n_p63_Benotti http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_97814503_v_n_p63_Benotti
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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collection Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
topic Chatbot
Computer science K-12 outreach
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
Engineering research
Teaching
Chatbot
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
K12 outreach
Students
spellingShingle Chatbot
Computer science K-12 outreach
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
Engineering research
Teaching
Chatbot
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
K12 outreach
Students
Schapachnik, Fernando Pablo
Engaging high school students using Chatbots
topic_facet Chatbot
Computer science K-12 outreach
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
Engineering research
Teaching
Chatbot
Engagement
Experimental evaluation
Gender
K12 outreach
Students
description Chatbots have been used in different scenarios for getting people interested in CS for decades. However, their potential for teaching basic concepts and their engaging effect has not been measured. In this paper we present a software platform called Chatbot designed to foster engagement while teaching basic CS concepts such as variables, conditionals and finite state automata, among others. We carried out two experiences using Chatbot and the well known platform Alice: 1) an online nation-wide competition, and 2) an inclass 15-lesson pilot course in 2 high schools. Data shows that retention and girl interest are higher with Chatbot than with Alice, indicating student engagement. © 2014 ACM.
author Schapachnik, Fernando Pablo
author_facet Schapachnik, Fernando Pablo
author_sort Schapachnik, Fernando Pablo
title Engaging high school students using Chatbots
title_short Engaging high school students using Chatbots
title_full Engaging high school students using Chatbots
title_fullStr Engaging high school students using Chatbots
title_full_unstemmed Engaging high school students using Chatbots
title_sort engaging high school students using chatbots
publishDate 2014
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