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http://dx.doi.org/10.14352/jkaie.2014.18.2.317

Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Programming Education using Educational Programming Languages  

Yang, Changmo (Dept. of Computer Education, Cheongju National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education / v.18, no.2, 2014 , pp. 317-324 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the effects of programming education using educational programming languages. We select 70 papers which contain 101 individual experimental studies we can estimate the effect size from. The average effect size of the studies is .641, which means that programming education has modest effects on the learners. The average effect size of the learners' cognitive and affective domains are 0.632 and 0.666, respectively. The average effect size by the controlled variables such as school level, experimental periods, and programming languages have no statistically significant difference. The results of our study show that the experimental group receiving programming education, can be expected perform about 23.9% better compared to the control group having received no programming education.
Keywords
Meta-analysis; Programming Education; Educational Programming Languages;
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