• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2017

Programming is very important subject in computer science and similar computer-related areas such as electronics engineering, etc. Programming is also important for information education for elementary, middle, and high school students since programming is one of the most basic subjects in computer science courses and other similar areas. In current information and knowledge society, raising programming ability is a key factor for everyone's competitiveness. With highly-competitive programming ability, one can enjoy his or her daily life abundantly. He or she also can get a highly-paid job, and make money using his or her programming ability. In this paper, a programming ability assessment tool is developed and introduced for the no-programming experienced. It is very difficult to test programming ability for the no-programming experienced with non-programming tools or activities. In this paper, a programming ability assessment tool is developed based on logical thinking ability. Especially the proposed tool consists of 15 questions for test one's logical thinking ability. The tool does not require any computer science or programming background. The proposed tool will be helpful as criteria for entrance examination or job screening examination for programming-related areas or subjects.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.65-70
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• 2018

Programming ability becomes an essential ability for elementary and secondary school students as well as computer science major students in modern information society. Thus, improving programming ability has long been a research project for computer scientists and teachers in IT areas. There have been many research works for improving programming ability in various ways. At first glance, emotional intelligence is generally known as humanistic intelligence, and nothing to do with computer areas. In the recent works, emotional intelligence has a correlation with various subjects. The purpose of this paper is to analyze correlation between emotional intelligence and programing ability. For this purpose, extensive survey works are carried out and statistical results are analyzed. Based on statistical analysis, it is concluded that there is a correlation between emotional intelligence and programming ability.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.210-237
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• 2009

The aim of this thesis is to develop a robot C programming curriculum with the subject of the students in the middle & High School and to prove the effect of the programming on creativity and programming ability. The content of the robot C programming curriculum consists of the introduction, basic knowledge and assembling of the robot (usage of kits and the theory of mechanism); the learning of the robot c programming; the assigned robot making; the original robot making, which is ultimately designed to improve the creative robot programming ability of students. The subjects are divided into two groups(38); one groups(11) taking the course of C++programming and the other(27) taking the robot C programming as well as C++programming. Then each group's improvement of creativity and programming ability is measured in both pretest and posttest. The students taking the robot C programming curriculum gain the product of the assigned robot and the original robot. Besides, it turns out that the curriculum have a meaningful effect in that students acquire the enhanced creativity according to the result of TTCT Creativity Test. Self evaluation also indicates the improvement of C++programming ability.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.443-450
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• 2009

A programming class was conducted in a current discretionary activity time-slot for computer education by using Dolittle which enhances problem solving ability and creativity for the fifth graders in elementary school. Based on this experiment, a correlation between the programming class and problem solving ability, creativity, and interests in programming of children was examined to suggest an outlook for improving the current computer education.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.23-30
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• 2009

Most previous studies on programming learning effect is limited to measuring the enhancement degree of creativity and problem solving ability. This study is to find out indexes related to programming ability, other than creativity and problem solving ability by the specialty-aptitude test(SAT) in the elementary school. For this, 4th grade elementary students took LOGO programming class and the achievement test. As a result, among 4 regions of SAT, all five indexes of intellectual ability is highly related to programming ability, indicating that students with high intelligence rather than creativity have higher programming ability and that for our experiment settings the reverse of the previous result stating that programming education positively affects the development of problem solving ability and creativity does not hold.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.23-32
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• 2009

Problem-solving ability have become extremely important in today's world. Programming may help to induce problem-solving ability. However, programming may give cognitive overload and offense against learning motivation. Therefore it is necessary that we should develope strategies to increase motivation on elementary programming classes. We developed a programming learning design and supporting system that combine problem-based learning and storytelling to induce motivation and problem solving ability. And then, we implemented the developed course in elementary school. The result of the research shows that the developed programming classes had positive effect on the development of elementary student's motivation and problem-solving ability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.468-475
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• 2010

We survey the effects of robot programming education using web 2.0 on improving problem solving ability. For this, we constructed a robot programming education system using springnote based web 2.0 and taught computer gifted students of D region. Furthermore, we investigated about the problem solving ability when the robot programming education using web 2.0 is executed. In conclusion, the robot programming education using web 2.0 stimulate problem solving ability for learners.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.603-610
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• 2021

As part of recent SW education methods, entry sites have been used in all practical textbooks in elementary schools. However, they are all learning block-type programming languages, making it difficult to produce programs that can be used in everyday life. This study is a study on the effects of learning programming using entry python on logical thinking ability and programming interest in elementary school students. Logical thinking ability and programming interest tests were conducted before and after the 8th class. Before and after classes, logical thinking ability score rose from an average of 6.6 to 9.4 and programming interests score also rose from an average of 46.7 to 59.1. This results in programming learning using Entry Python is significant for enhancing the logical thinking ability and programming interest of elementary school students.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.761-772
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• 2011

In current knowledge-based society, national competitiveness and growth of society depend on advances in information and communication technologies considerably. In order to grow advances in information and communication technologies, it is essential to identify and foster gifted children in IT as early as possible. In gifted education in IT, enhancing programming ability and logical thinking ability is very important and is also a part of objectives of gifted education in IT. The purpose of this paper is to identify correlation of programming ability and logical thinking ability for the gifted children in IT. For this purpose, gifted children from a gifted institution at Seoul are selected and their test scores during the period of attendance at institution are analyzed. Also, for extensive analysis, the test scores had been collected for 6 years. Based on thorough statistical analysis, the conclusion is that programming ability and logical thinking ability highly correlate each other. This conclusion can be used to decide and affect a selection examination, curriculum, and selection of an exemplary programming language for gifted education in IT.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1-13
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• 2015

In recent domestic and international curriculum it is emphasized that students should acquire 'problem solving' competence as a member of knowledge information society and various programming educational methods of improving problem solving competence have been studied. But there is no difference between programming problems in related research and traditional programming courses. Most methods of solving problems are focused on acquiring specific languages rather than enhancing problem solving ability. In this research, we developed a suitable programming problems and curriculum for fostering problem solving competence and designed and developed teaching and learning contents based on PSA(Problem Solving Activities). Furthermore, we obtained meaningful results of improving learners' problem solving ability and logical thinking ability by operating curriculum with developed contents as learning materials. The results of this research are expected to be used as a reference model or basic teaching materials for developing and operating the programming teaching and learning contents or curriculum to enhance problem solving competence.