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http://dx.doi.org/10.14352/jkaie.2016.20.5.465

Development and Application of Teaching-Learning Strategy for PBL-based Programming Education Using Reflection Journal in Elementary School  

Seo, Jeonghyun (Dept. of Computer Education, Korea National University of Education)
Kim, Yungsik (Dept. of Computer Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education / v.20, no.5, 2016 , pp. 465-474 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present study is aimed to find the effect of the activity of writing a structured reflection journal in the learning process of PBL-based programming on the logical thinking of elementary school students. To achieve the objective, this study carried out an experiment with 59 elementary school students in the 5th grade. They were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group was applied with PBL-based programming classes by learning step, including learning of the contents, its procedure, and the activities of writing a critical reflection journal while the control group received learning of PBL-based programming including unstructured reflection journal. And then the difference in their logical thinking was compared and analyzed before and after th experiment. The results demonstrated that the experimental group showed a significant difference in logical thinking before and after writing structured reflection journal (ANCOVA) at the significance level of .05, which evidenced writing a structured reflection journal has learning effect. Intergroup comparison of logical thinking also showed that there was learning effect. Those findings suggest that writing a structured reflection journal in the PBL-based programming learning for 5th grade elementary school students has a positive effect on the learners' logical thinking.
Keywords
Programming Learning; PBL; Reflection Journal; Logical Thinking;
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