Can computational thinking be improved by using a methodology based on metaphors and scratch to teach computer programming to children?
| Autor: | Diana Pérez-Marín, Celeste Pizarro, Raquel Hijón-Neira, Adrián Bacelo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Computer science business.industry Computational thinking 05 social sciences Computer programming Primary education 050301 education 050801 communication & media studies Test (assessment) Human-Computer Interaction 0508 media and communications Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Scratch ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Key (cryptography) Mathematics education business 0503 education computer General Psychology computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Computers in Human Behavior. 105:105849 |
| ISSN: | 0747-5632 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.027 |
| Popis: | Computational thinking (CT) is a key skill in the 21st century. However, it is not clear which is the most effective way to acquire and improve CT. Big research efforts are made to determine which pedagogical means should be used. One research trend is based on the idea that teaching programming since Primary Education suffices to improve CT. In our previous work, we proposed and validated a methodology based on metaphors and used of Scratch (MECOPROG) to teach basic programming concepts to children. It is our hypothesis H that by applying MECOPROG, students will develop their CT. To check H, we carried out an experiment with 132 Primary Education Students (9–12 years in age). At the beginning of the experiment, all students were asked to fill in a programming concepts test and two tests to measure their CT. During the sessions, all students were taught according to MECOPROG. Finally, they took the three tests again. A significant increase in the results on all the tests has been measured, supporting the use of metaphors and Scratch to teach computer programming concepts to Primary Education students to develop their CT . |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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