Assessing Elementary School Students' Programming Thinking Skills using Rubrics

In this study, we evaluated the abilities elementary school students can cultivate through education using programming. We focused on using programming in subject education, e.g., arithmetic and science. The effect of programming education in computer science has been reported extensively; however,...

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Published inProceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (Online) pp. 1 - 8
Main Authors Saito, Daisuke, Kaieda, Shota, Yajima, Risei, Washizaki, Hironori, Fukazawa, Yoshiaki, Omiya, Hidetoshi, Onodera, Misaki, Sato, Idumi
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published IEEE 08.12.2020
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Education
Mathematics
Programming education
Programming profession
programming thinking
rubric
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ISSN2470-6698
DOI10.1109/TALE48869.2020.9368389

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Summary:In this study, we evaluated the abilities elementary school students can cultivate through education using programming. We focused on using programming in subject education, e.g., arithmetic and science. The effect of programming education in computer science has been reported extensively; however, it is unclear what abilities utilization of programming in may cultivate in other subjects. Therefore, in this study, we created a rubric to evaluate programming thinking skills. The rubric was applied to actual elementary school math and science classes for evaluation. As a result, in mathematics, the ability to analyze events improved, and, in science, the ability to branch improved. In this paper, we present the rubric and corresponding evaluation results.
ISSN:2470-6698
DOI:10.1109/TALE48869.2020.9368389