Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Journal of Scholars in Education (IJSE), cilt.8, sa.2, ss.145-162, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study investigates the opinions of academics and pre-service teachers in Primary School Education and Science Education who received robotics coding training regarding their scientific reasoning and problem-solving skills. It explores how different types of reasoning—inductive, deductive, and abductive—are used in robotics coding applications and identifies related technological challenges. Adopting a qualitative case study design, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 5 academics and 13 pre-service teachers and analyzed via content analysis. Findings indicate that robotics coding training enhances analytical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and digital literacy while improving scientific process skills such as observation, hypothesis formulation, and drawing conclusions. Participants also reported difficulties such as sensor errors and hardware incompatibilities but emphasized that these experiences strengthened their analytical and solution-oriented thinking. Overall, robotics coding training contributes substantially to the professional development of educators by integrating scientific reasoning with hands-on technological practice.