Microworlds with Different Pedagogical Approaches in Introductory Programming Learning: Effects in Programming Knowledge and Logical Reasoning

Costa, Joana Martinho

doi:10.31449/inf.v43i1.2657

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“…The primary motivation to start this study was to contribute to the discussion about how the relationship between technology and education can be enhanced, especially in the current context. The truth is that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the increase of online scholar activities that were already under way (e.g., [22]). The ERT had ever happened.…”

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Assessment Patterns during Portuguese Emergency Remote Teaching

2022

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COVID-19 certainly brought more negative aspects than positive ones to education. On the one hand, new gaps and challenges emerged from the lockdowns worldwide. On the other hand, we have been witnessing the increased relationship between technology and education, which created an opportunity for education to evolve and enhance the use of digital tools in classes. During several lockdowns worldwide, due to the pandemic crisis, millions of students and teachers were forced to continue the process of teaching and learning at home and experienced Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT), which led to new challenges on the process of students’ assessment. To understand what assessment challenges teachers face during the ERT and their patterns for evaluation, we performed a survey in Portugal where the ERT lasted several months in the last two years. The survey was validated and conducted in the first semester of 2021. We found two main patterns: (i) the group of teachers that prefer oral discussion and dialogue simulation and display disbelief towards traditional tests and educational games; and (ii) the group of teachers that tend to prefer oral simulation and display greater disbelief about educational games, dialogue simulation and peer work and review. From the survey analysis, we also found that teachers considered their students to be more distracted and less engaged in online classes. They were negatively affected both in their learning and evaluation process. Using digital tools to collect and validate data and creating patterns between collected data is essential to understand what to expect in future crises. The presented analysis should be correlated with other studies to extract patterns of knowledge from data and to be able to obtain conclusions about how to move education forward.

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“…Essa percepc ¸ão preocupa alguns docentes e pesquisadores que buscam melhores práticas no processo de ensino e aprendizagem [Costa 2019]. As altas taxas de reprovac ¸ão em algoritmos necessitam de especial atenc ¸ão, pois esta é a base para várias outras disciplinas que abordam o desenvolvimento de software, que é uma das habilidade de elevada importância para o cotidiano profissional de computac ¸ão, além disso, as retenc ¸ões contribuem para o abandono do curso ou uma formac ¸ão de pouca qualidade, prejudicando, portanto, a carreira profissional do discente.…”

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Implementação de Teoria da Carga Cognitiva na Disciplina Algoritmos: Um Relato de Experiência

Cardoso¹,

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2023

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A Teoria da Carga Cognitiva (TCC) apresenta diretrizes que tem o objetivo de otimizar o processo de aprendizagem, com base em pesquisas relacionadas a arquitetura cognitiva humana. Considerando a dificuldade na aprendizagem de algoritmos, refletida em alto índice de retenção de discentes, verifica-se a necessidade de buscar soluções que busquem facilitar a aprendizagem deste tipo de conteúdo. Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar se é possível otimizar a aprendizagem de algoritmos através do desenvolvimento de materiais didáticos com base na TCC. Foi utilizado o método indutivo, partindo da premissa de que a TCC otimiza a aprendizagem. Após desenvolvidos, estes materiais foram aplicados em uma turma real. Como resultados, verificou-se melhora na aprendizagem, refletida na redução das taxas de retenção.

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“…The mastery of programming language can also be enhanced using interactive and visual-looking programming software as shown in [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. In a work by Erol and Kurt [9], students were divided into two groups, where, one group used Scratch's visual software and another group adopted the flowchart method, to learn the basic concepts of programming.…”

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“…Another work by [11] analysed the effectiveness of interactive programming software that enables real-time feedback given to students when writing programmes. Other interactive tools like Pencil Code collaborative software [12], Resource Flow Diagram (RFD) [13], Alice microworld [14], and virtual reality [15] were also used to promote intuitive learning. The use of the interactive feedback system demonstrates an improvement in overall student achievement.…”

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Strengthening programming skills among engineering students through experiential learning based robotics project

Ibrahim

Huddin

Hashim

et al. 2020

IJERE

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This study examined the educational effects in strengthening programming skills among university’s undergraduate engineering students via integration of a robotics project and an experiential learning approach. In this study, a robotics project was conducted to close the gap of students’ difficulty in relating the theoretical concepts of programming and real-world problems. Hence, an experiential learning approach using the Kolb model was proposed to investigate the problem. In this project, students were split into groups whereby they were asked to develop codes for controlling the navigation of a wheeled mobile robot. They were responsible for managing their group’s activities, conducting laboratory tests, producing technical reports and preparing a video presentation. The statistical analysis performed on the students’ summative assessments of a programming course revealed a remarkable improvement in their problem-solving skills and ability to provide programming solutions to a real-world problem.

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Microworlds with Different Pedagogical Approaches in Introductory Programming Learning: Effects in Programming Knowledge and Logical Reasoning

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Assessment Patterns during Portuguese Emergency Remote Teaching

Assessment Patterns during Portuguese Emergency Remote Teaching

Implementação de Teoria da Carga Cognitiva na Disciplina Algoritmos: Um Relato de Experiência

Strengthening programming skills among engineering students through experiential learning based robotics project

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