Which visual programming language best suits each school level? A look at Alice, iVProg, and Scratch

Nascimento, Marcos D. do; Felix, Igor Moreira; Ferreira, Bernardo Martins; Souza, Lucas Mendonca de; Brandão, Leônidas de Oliveira; Brandão, Anarosa Alves Franco

doi:10.1109/edunine.2019.8875788

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“…Another possible reason for the result may be differences in the target groups of these block-based visual programming tools. do Nascimento et al. (2019) reported that Scratch seems to be more suitable for all levels, especially for young students, while Alice seems to be more appropriate for the high school stage or above.…”

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Exploring the Effectiveness and Moderators of Block-Based Visual Programming on Student Learning: A Meta-Analysis

Chen

2020

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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Block-based visual programming tools, such as Scratch, Alice, and MIT App Inventor, provide an intuitive and easy-to-use editing interface through which to promote programming learning for novice students of various ages. However, very little attention has been paid to investigating these tools’ overall effects on students’ academic achievement and the study features that may moderate the effects of block-based visual programming from a comprehensive perspective. Thus, the present study carried out a meta-analysis to systemically examine 29 empirical studies (extracting 34 effect sizes) using experimental or quasi-experiments involving the programming learning effects of employing block-based visual programming tools to date (until the end of 2019). The results showed a small to medium significant positive overall mean effect size (fixed-effect model g = 0.37; random-effects model g = 0.47) of the use of these block-based visual programming tools with respect to students’ academic achievement. Furthermore, the overall mean effect size was significantly affected by the educational stage, programming tool used, experimental treatment, and school location. Discussions and implications based on the findings are provided.

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Exploring the Effectiveness and Moderators of Block-Based Visual Programming on Student Learning: A Meta-Analysis

Chen

2020

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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“…Dados os impactos positivos sobre o uso de ferramentas para ProgV no ensino e aprendizado de programação, realizou-se uma pesquisa exploratória, comparando-se as ferramentas Alice, iVProg e Scratch [do Nascimento et al 2019]. Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar aspectos técnicos, perfil de usuário, além da verificação de recursos de acessibilidade e adequação para cegos.…”

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“…A problemática de acessibilidade estende-se também para as ferramentas utilizadas integradas ou em conjunto a esses AVA como, por exemplo, ferramentas de apoio a programação visual (ProgV) [do Nascimento et al 2019]. Essas ferramentas fornecem elementos gráficos para representar comandos e naturalmente evitam várias armadilhas de sintaxe presentes nas linguagens de programação de texto tradicionais.…”

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Um modelo de acessibilidade para cegos em sistemas de programação visual

Nascimento

Brandão

2019

Anais Dos Workshops Do VIII Congresso Brasileiro De Informática Na Educação (CBIE 2019)

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Resumo. Segundo a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), 246 milhões pessoas apresentam perda moderada ou severa da visão. Pessoas com deficiência visual severa(cegos) utilizam-se de tecnologias assistivas, como leitores de tela, para interagir com ambientes virtuais. Para o uso efetivo de ambientes virtuais por cegos, são necessárias uma série de adequações relacionadasà acessibilidade. Essa pesquisa visa, por meio de estudos heurísticos e empíricos, propor um modelo de programação acessível para cegos.

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“…Besides that, the Horizon Report also identified visual programming languages as important tools to foster programming skills (Freeman and Hall Giesinger, 2017). A visual programming system is a programming environment that implements a VPL (Nascimento et al, 2019). The presence of these systems dates back to 1960, when Sketchpad was developed (Glinert and Tanimoto, 1984).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Alice, the student has access to a 3d environment that can be populated with different objects and images. It also includes a set of built-in actions that allows the user to move objects, dynamically create new ones or change their appearance (Nascimento et al, 2019). These actions are presented as visual blocks that can be dragged and dropped to describe the desired behavior.…”

Section: Visual Programming Systemmentioning

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VCAT: an automatic assessment model for visual programming languages

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À minha mãe, Dinalva M. dos Anjos, sem a qual eu não teria chegado até aqui. À todos os docentes que passaram por minha caminhada, que me deram as bases necessárias para essas conquista: Profa. Anarosa e Prof Leonidas, Prof. Eduardo Cambruzzi e Profa. Eliete Franco que são e sempre serão minhas referências. Aos amigos que seguraram minha mão nos momentos de inseguranças e incertezas dando suporte para seguir em frente:

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Which visual programming language best suits each school level? A look at Alice, iVProg, and Scratch

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Exploring the Effectiveness and Moderators of Block-Based Visual Programming on Student Learning: A Meta-Analysis

Exploring the Effectiveness and Moderators of Block-Based Visual Programming on Student Learning: A Meta-Analysis

Um modelo de acessibilidade para cegos em sistemas de programação visual

VCAT: an automatic assessment model for visual programming languages

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