Using App Inventor To Teach High School Programming─A Case Study
| Autor: | 蔡育融 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 101 This study aims to investigate the effects of using App Inventor to teach high school student programming. We implemented the case study method in this study. A case teacher and forty-one students, who enrolled in the teacher’s computer class, from a public high school participated in the study. Five programming units using App Inventor, including: introduction to programming, variables, relational operators and conditionals were designed and taught to students in a five-week period with a total of 10 hours. Analysis from students’ performance test, answers on an attitude questionnaire, and interviews of both teacher and the students, revealed that: (1) App Inventor promoted the students’ learning interest on programming. (2) App Inventor helped student comprehend programs, but did not have effect on coding programs. (3) App Inventor’s complicated instruction sets may affect students’ performance on coding programs. We suggested that teachers can use App Inventor to promote students learning programming. However, instructional approaches should be careful designed to lessen the difficulty resulted from the instruction sets of App Inventor. Future research should develop more app examples, consider whether gender factor will affect learning, and increase the duration of experiment, so that the effects of using App Inventor to teach programming could be better understood. |
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