The usage of visual programming languages among primary school teachers in the Czech republic
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sws.iscss.2020.7.1/s08.58" target="_blank" >10.5593/sws.iscss.2020.7.1/s08.58</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The usage of visual programming languages among primary school teachers in the Czech republic
Original language description
In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named The usage of educational materials in informatics. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a secondary grade of elementary schools and its equivalent in grammar schools. Descriptive type of analysis is used for data evaluation. Results show, that most of the teachers, which are teaching programming and algorithmization in the subject of informatics or in afterschool hobby group, are using visual programming languages such a Scratch, or they use them on learning portals like code.org and didactics games like CodeCombat. Another very popular option of usage of visual programming is for educational robots. Also, they find these programming languages as an appropriate way for teaching programming and they agreed, that visual programming languages can motivate pupils more towards programming than a high-level programming language. This popularity of visual programming language can lead to the spread of these languages among others teachers and contribute to the development of more environments for teaching programming with the usage of visual programming language, instead of high-level programming languages, which can be harder to understand due to its lack of visual representation.
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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
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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
7th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences ISCSS 2020
ISBN
978-619-7603-02-6
ISSN
2682-9959
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Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
477-482
Publisher name
SGEM
Place of publication
Sofia
Event location
Online
Event date
Aug 25, 2020
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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