Theses

— 2024 —

• Levinson, T. (2024) Teacher Beliefs on Play and Academic Learning with a Kindergarten Coding Curriculum: A Mixed-Methods Study in the United States and Argentina (Doctoral Dissertation).

— 2023 —

• Nievera, M. (2023) Teachers of Today Make a Better Tomorrow: Teachers’ Values in Teaching Robotics to Pre-K Students Experiencing Homelessness. (Master’s Thesis).

• Unahalekhaka, A. (2023) Young Children’s Processes in Creating Coding Projects across Coding as Another Language Curriculum. (Doctoral dissertation). 
  

— 2022 —

• Relkin, E. (2022). The Development of Computational Thinking Skills in Young Children. (Doctoral dissertation)

• Levinson, T. (2022). Quantifying the Coding Playground: A Pilot Study Creating and Attempting to Validate a Rubric for Positive Technological Development. (Masters Theses)

• Govind, M. (2022). A Qualitative Examination of Second Grade Teachers’ Experiences and Attitudes Around Coding and Robotics Education (Doctoral dissertation).

— 2020 —

• Strawhacker, A. L. (2020) Biodesign Education in Early Childhood: A Design-Research Study of the Tangible CRISPEE Technology and Learning Intervention. (Doctoral dissertation). Tufts University, Medford, MA. Order No. 27962318 Tufts University, 2020. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 2 Aug. 2020.

• Bennie, M. (2020). Thinking Strategically, Acting Tactically: The Emotions Behind the Cognitive Process of Debugging in Early Childhood (Master’s Thesis)

— 2019 —

• Govind, M. (2019). Families That Code Together Learn Together: Exploring family-oriented programming in early childhood with ScratchJr and KIBO Robotics (Master’s thesis).

— 2018 —

• Relkin, E. (2018). Assessing Young Children’s Computational Thinking Abilities. (Master’s thesis).

–2017–

• Vizner, M., Z. (2017). Big Robots for Little Kids: Investigating the Role of Scale in Early Childhood Robotics Kids. (Master’s thesis).

–2016–

• Sullivan, A. (2016). Breaking the STEM Stereotype: Investigating the Use of Robotics to Change Young Children’s Gender Stereotypes About Technology & Engineering. (Doctoral dissertation).

— 2015 —

• Lee, S.C.U. (2015). Teaching Tools, Teachers’ Rules: ScratchJr in the Classroom. (Master’s thesis).

• Portelance, D.J. (2015). Code and Tell: An exploration of peer interviews and computational thinking with ScratchJr in the early childhood classroom. (Master’s thesis).

 — 2014 —

• Chau, C. (2014). Positive Technological Development for Young Children in the Context of Children’s Mobile Apps. (Doctoral dissertation).

• Kazakoff, E. (2014). Cats in Space, Pigs that Race: Does self-regulation play a role when kindergartners learn to code? (Doctoral dissertation.)

• Lentz, T. (2014). Kids, Robotics, and Gender: a pilot study (Undergraduate thesis).

— 2013 —

• Seddighi, S. (2013). Evaluation of a Professional Development Workshop on Integration of Robotics into Early Childhood Classrooms (Master’s thesis).

— 2012 —

• Plevinsky, J. (2012). Continuing Camp Oasis: Adolscent Utilization of Facebook for Social Support (Master’s thesis).

— 2011 —

• Flannery, L. (2011). Dancing the “Robot Hokey Pokey”: Cognitive Development as a Predictor of Programming Achievement (Master’s thesis).

• Beals, L. (2011). A Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Virtual World Programs for Preadolescent Youth (Doctoral dissertation).

• Libman, N. (2011). Mi Ani? (Who Am I?): Using Robotics to Explore Jewish Identity (Master’s thesis).

— 2010 —

• Cantrell, K. (2010). Introducing Zora Camp4All: A virtual community to augment pediatric camping (Master’s thesis).

— 2009 —

• Horn, M. (2009). Tangible Computer Programming: Exploring the use of Emerging Technology in Classrooms and Science Museums (Doctoral dissertation).

— 2006 —

• Beals, L. (2006). Dyadic Collaborative Problem Solving in Engineering Tasks in a First Grade Classroom (Master’s thesis).

• Chau, C. (2006). Associations between online civic engagement and personal technological characteristics among college students (Master’s thesis).

• Mathur, A. (2006). Active Citizenship through Technology: Designing a Curriculum that Uses New Technologies to Promote Understanding of Active Citizenship in College Students (Undergraduate thesis).

— 2003 —

• Hacker, L. (2003). Robotics in Education: ROBOLAB and robotic technology as tools for learning science and engineering (Undergraduate thesis).

— 2001 —

• Bers, M. (2001). Identity Construction Environments: The Design of Computational Tools for Exploring a Sense of Self and Moral Values (Doctoral dissertation).