Factors Influencing Lower Secondary School Pupils' Success in Programming Projects in Scratch
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<a href="https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Factors Influencing Lower Secondary School Pupils' Success in Programming Projects in Scratch
Original language description
In the Czech Republic, a radical change in the school curriculum is planned. Through a new, compulsory subject of "Informatics and ICT", the aim is to develop digital literacy across all school subjects, and computational think-ing. Computational thinking will be implemented in the curriculum of pre-primary, primary, lower and upper secondary schools, and in teacher educa-tion at all faculties of education in the Czech Republic. To ensure readiness for the implementation of the new subject, it has been necessary to prepare and develop a set of learning materials for pupils and teaching guidelines for teachers. These textbooks focus on robotics, programming (Scratch, Python), and theoretical concepts from Informatics. This paper describes a qualitative study aimed at identifying key factors influencing lower secondary pupils' success in completing some activities related to programming in Scratch. Data were gathered from the feedback of five teachers and 121 pupils at five lower secondary schools, and from the researchers' observation reports from school visits. The key findings of the study showed that pupils' success pro-gramming in Scratch depends on their motivation to the theme of the Scratch activity, a positive climate in the learning environment, peer collab-oration, and freedom in ways to learn new concepts and to find solutions to given problems. Programming in Scratch is promising in developing pupils' creativity and decision-making in problem-solving. Additionally, a stress-free, non-threatening, learning environment, where the teacher appreciates the enthusiasm, thinking process and effort of pupils to find an original solu-tion has a positive influence on their success.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Informatics in Schools. Engaging Learners in Computational Thinking
ISBN
978-3-030-63211-3
ISSN
0302-9743
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Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
119-129
Publisher name
Springer Nature Switzerland
Place of publication
Springer, Cham
Event location
Talin
Event date
Nov 16, 2020
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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