Publications by Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Modelling the sustainability of a primary school digital education curricular reform and professional development program

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier

Sustaining changes in teachers’ practices is a challenge that determines the success of curricular reforms, from which Digital Education (DE) is not exempt. As the literature on sustainability is considered “scarce” and “scattered”, long-term studies model ...

2023

Dataset to Model the Sustainability of a Primary School Digital Education Curricular Reform and Professional Development Program

Francesco Mondada, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse the sustainability of an in-service teacher training program for Digital Education that took place from September 2019 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. As such, the study f ...

Zenodo2022

The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Evgeniia Bonnet, Christian Giang, Bernard Baumberger, Vaios Papaspyros

Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...

2022

Mediating Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics In Primary School

Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Nowadays, computational thinking (CT) is considered a skill to be taught. While educational robotics (ER) appears promising to foster students' CT, operational CT frameworks and explicit guidance in ER are lacking. This thesis thus proposes to understand h ...

EPFL2022

A computer science and robotics integration model for primary school: evaluation of a large-scale in-service K-4 teacher-training program

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

Integrating computer science (CS) into school curricula has become a worldwide preoccupation. Therefore, we present a CS and Robotics integration model and its validation through a large-scale pilot study in the administrative region of the Canton Vaud in ...

2021

Teachers’ Perspective on Fostering Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Barbara Bruno

With the introduction of educational robotics (ER) and computational thinking (CT) in classrooms, there is a rising need for operational models that help ensure that CT skills are adequately developed. One such model is the Creative Computational Problem S ...

Springer2021

The symbiotic relationship between educational robotics and computer science in formal education

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

Educational Robotics (ER) has the potential to provide significant benefits to edu-cation, provided an increase in outreach by transitioning from the extra-curricular initiatives in which ER has thrived to formal education. As Computer Science (CS) Educati ...

2021

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

Robots bring a new potential for embodied learning in classrooms. With our project, we aim to ease the task for teachers and to show the worth of tangible manipulation of robots in educational contexts. In this article, we present the design and the evalua ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

IniRobot : a pedagogical kit to initiate children to concepts of robotics and computer science

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Gordana Gerber

We present the IniRobot pedagogical kit, conceived and deployed within French and Swiss primary schools for the initiation to robotics and computer science. It provides a microworld for learning, and takes an enquiry-based educational approach, where kids ...

Roboptics Edition2015

Thymio II, a robot that grows wiser with children

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Thymio II is a small robot developed for education. It aims at offering a wide public the possibility to understand the basics of robotics and programming. To achieve this, it aims at being appealing to a large age range and serve as a medium for several t ...

IEEE2013