Assessing Engagement of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Educational Robotics Activities

Engagement is a multi-componential construct, difficult to measure in its general form as in the typical development but even more in the atypical development. Currently, there are no instruments in the literature to measure engagement in its different dimensions (behavioural, affective, social and cognitive) for students with intellectual disabilities involved in creative robotics activities.With this aim, we tried to apply a survey system based on the triangulation of three ad hoc tools: an observation grid, analysis of verbal productions and a questionnaire. This triple system of application allowed us to understand whether the creative robotics activity proposed to children with intellectual disabilities aroused their interest and involvement, and to what extent.