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Application of Computational Thinking to Improve Learning Effectiveness in the Subject ‘Programming’

  • Journal of Knowledge Information Technology and Systems
  • Abbr : JKITS
  • 2018, 13(2), pp.263-271
  • DOI : 10.34163/jkits.2018.13.2.008
  • Publisher : Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Published : April 30, 2018

Jae Hyun Park 1 Park,Durk-Won 2

1춘천한샘고등학교
2세명대학교

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ABSTRACT

Computer education at school uses a lecture method in which instructors communicate ICT knowledge and software usage to learners. However, it has been pointed out that it is difficult to cultivate talented people with creative thinking and problem-solving skills necessary for the digital age. On the other hand, software education improves higher cognitive abilities such as learner 's logical thinking, problem solving ability, achievement and confidence through completion, cooperation and interaction through discussion. To apply the software education to the school site, it is necessary to provide software education centered on student activities in addition to the existing lecture class method. The purpose of this study is to apply computing thinking activity of software education to programming learning and to analyze its learning effect. To do this, we analyze the programming textbooks and design a class model to apply computing thinking activities to learning. And applied it to the actual class and compared it with the existing lecture method. In this study, we divided into experiment group applying computational thinking activities method and control group applying existing lecture class. Prior to the experiments, assured the homogeneity of two groups by academic achievement pre-test, after that, analyzed results of t-test by academic achievement post-test. As a result, the computational thinking activity applied to the programming lesson showed positive results both in interest and attitude of programming learning as well as achievement improvement.

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