Robótica educacional: avaliação do desempenho de alunos do ensino fundamental II com a inserção da robótica educacional na grade curricular

Abstract

This nal year project refers to the addition of robotics topics on Math program content of public schools, in order to evaluate the improvement of its students and professors education. In this project, different methods were applied on the evaluation, including national methods as well as local data sets. The Educational Robotics course has been offered only on few public schools and this paper is based on the course offered by an institution on the São Francisco city, located on the backwoods of Paraíba (around 500 km of João Pessoa). Considering the experience of previous activities and the fact that robotics brings positive results, Fr oes states that it's a educational proposal, supported on the experimentation and wander of the purpose, "a new professor/student relationship, where both grow up together, in every moment, searching, learning, mistaking..."(apud Maisonnette, 2002, p.1). Ultimately, this project has a major focus on students on their nal year of Secondary School, once its the closure of such an important academic life circle of these students.