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Socratous, Chrysanthos; Ioannou, Andri – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The study aims to compare the effect of a structured versus an unstructured educational robotics (ER) curriculum on (a) the frequency and type of programming errors made by students in block-based programming, (b) their ability to debug a programme, and (c) their engagement in the learning process. The authors' hypothesis is that, in programming…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
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Zha, Shenghua; Jin, Yi; Moore, Pamela; Gaston, Joe – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2020
Informed by the person-object theory of interest, this study deployed a mixed-method concurrent triangulation design and investigated the impact of major/specialization, gender, and module design on preservice teachers' interest in teaching computational thinking. The study was conducted in a flipped computational thinking module hosted in three…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Interests
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Silva-Maceda, Gabriela; Arjona-Villicaña, P. David; Castillo-Barrera, F. Edgar – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
Learning to program is a complex task, and the impact of different pedagogical approaches to teach this skill has been hard to measure. This study examined the performance data of seven cohorts of students (N = 1168) learning programming under three different pedagogical approaches. These pedagogical approaches varied either in the length of the…
Descriptors: Programming, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences, Cohort Analysis