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Alan Gazzano – Arts Education Policy Review, 2024
This study examines the underpinnings of Japan's "programming education" in elementary school music, officially implemented nationwide in 2020. Through that reform, which has introduced "programming thinking" (a local version of computational thinking) in all areas of compulsory education, the country follows the international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Programming, Music Education
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Iskrenovic-Momcilovic, Olivera – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
This paper examines the effectiveness of programming in pairs in the Scratch environment in primary school. The motivation for tackling this issue is based on the successful use of Scratch as a learning environment for any students of programming. The analysis has shown that that programming in pairs produces better results for beginners in…
Descriptors: Programming, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
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Maruyama, Yukiko; Kanoh, Hiroko; Adachi, Kinya – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
To investigate parents' concerns about programming education in primary school, a preliminary online survey was carried out as a first step of the study. The result of the survey shows that parents seem to think that aim of programming education in primary school is not only learning coding. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579395.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Kong, Siu-Cheung; Li, Robert Kwok-Yiu; Kwok, Ron Chi-Wai – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
Schools around the globe increasingly realized the importance of technology and its application in the education system. To guarantee a successful educational innovation, schools seek out different parties for valuable opinions. Among them, parents are the important feedback providers, because their attitudes are influential on children's academic…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Programming, Computer Science Education, Test Construction
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Kong, Siu-Cheung; Wang, Yi-Qing – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
This study aims to establish a robust measurement to obtain a comprehensive understanding of perceptions of programming education (POPE) of teacher and principal groups. In this study, the POPE scale contains three dimensions: (a) understanding in programming (UP), (b) support for programming (SP), and (c) expectation of programming (EP).…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Computer Science Education
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Saltan, Fatih – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The study investigated pre-service ICT teachers' perceptions of algorithm visualization (AV) with regard to appropriateness of teaching levels and contribution to learning and motivation. In order to achieve this aim, a qualitative case study was carried out. The participants consisted of 218 pre-service ICT teachers from four different…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Computer Science Education, Mathematics, Visualization
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education