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https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v23i3.3934
Exploring the Achievement and Motivation of Learning a Text Programming Language among Elementary School Students in the Republic of Serbia
Dragan Rastovac
orcid.org/0000-0002-6418-2953
; Department of Informatics and media Faculty of Education Sombor University of Novi Sad Podgorička 4, 25101 Sombor, Serbia
Milinko Mandić
; Department of Informatics and media Faculty of Education Sombor University of Novi Sad Podgorička 4, 25101 Sombor, Serbia
Violeta Majski
; Elementary school “Dositej Obradović”, Sombor Slaviše Vajnera Čiče bb, 25101 Sombor, Srbija
Dragan Cvetković
orcid.org/0000-0002-2563-3598
; Department of Informatics and media Faculty of Education Sombor University of Novi Sad Podgorička 4, 25101 Sombor, Serbia
Sažetak
The introduction of Informatics and Computing as a compulsory subject for students
from the fifth to the eighth grade of elementary school, and programming as a basic
content of the curriculum represents a major advancement in elementary education
in the Republic of Serbia. In this study we conducted research on 58 primary
school students in the sixth grade. In the 2016/17 school year, students studied the
programming language Scratch, and in the school year 2017/18, they learned the
Python programming language. The programming courses took place once a week
(45 minutes) over 17 weeks. This study aimed to monitor the flow of learning visual
and textual programming language following the new elementary school curriculum
in Republic of Serbia, that is, the achievement and motivation of students to continue
learning programming. The research instrument used was a questionnaire. The results
of this study showed that it was easier for students to master the visual programming
language Scratch than the textual programming language Python. However, the
research results show that algorithmic way of thinking and motivation to learn by
programming a text language are satisfactory, given that students have not had
previous experience with it.
Ključne riječi
computational thinking; elementary education; textual programming; visual programming
Hrčak ID:
266843
URI
Datum izdavanja:
17.11.2021.
Posjeta: 901 *