An evaluation of robotic education scale in enhancing science achievement

The development in education in the 21st century has demanded Malaysian students to be on par or better with other students in advanced countries. Various pedagogics of teaching and learning are introduced in the class in order to produce good students in thinking, technical and moral values skills. One of the pedagogics introduced is using robotic education in the Malaysian education system. Among the advantages of robotic education are students can play in the learning process, can use ICT, problem solving, reasoning and working in teams. It was introduced in the education system particularly in the primary and secondary school education in 2005 by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia as a co-curricular activity which later is expanded as a competition from schools, districts, and states, national to international levels. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of robotic education in enhancing learning process among students. Quantitative approach by using questionnaires method to thirty selected students is employed. The result indicated that many students agreed that robotic education is required and relevant in enhancing learning process among students. It provides an interesting and positive learning environment where students are exposed various teaching and learning activities in the classroom where the students have to conduct experiments to get answers for each question which different from conventional learning activity of memorization and writing. As a conclusion, robotic education would entice students´ to learn by themself besides that can help to improve students thinking skills.