An innovative approach to School-Work turnover programme with educational robotics

This paper presents an innovative approach to alternating School- Work turnover programme based on Educational Robotics and on project-based learning. At the beginning of the year 2017 (from January to April), Liceo Volta-Fellini of Riccione proposed a STEM practical activity to its own students as a School-Work turnover programme. This course of Robotics was developed and designed by TALENT srl and Università Politecnica delle Marche with 3 objectives: raising interest in STEM education, providing students with the opportunity to learn to work in team, raising awareness towards their own cognitive processes and capabilities through the evaluation of their experience in the alternating school-work programme. Six classes were involved in the project, three from Scientific course and three from Applied Sciences course. The achievement of the project's aims was evaluated collecting data from students by means of a self-assessment questionnaire; students could express their level of agreement to the questions using a 5- point Likert scale: each group of questions associated to a specific aim with an average value greater than 3 allowed to consider that goal reached. As each objective scored an average value of 4.1, 3.5 and 3.6, authors consider all the three goals accomplished.