TSAI, YI YING
National Taipei University of Education Graduate School of Curriculum and Instructional Communication Technology Student
Email：lct580@mail.lces.ntpc.edu.tw
LIU, YUAN CHEN
National Taipei University of Education Graduate School of Curriculum and Instructional Communication Technology Professor
Email：liu@tea.ntue.edu.tw
Abstract
With the progress of the times, information technology has had a major impact on learning.However, learning is not only about acquiring knowledge, but also about developing problem solving skills.In recent years, due to the popularity of mobile devices, computing thinking has been promoted as a necessary skill for many citizens.In Taiwan,one of the required courses to incorporate programming into the Directions Governing for the 12-Year Basic Education Curricula. For the purpose of this study,to explore the use of Monographic Exploration Activities Programming System teaching,the impact on the problem-solving ability and team cohesion of elementary school students,in order to as a reference for the implementation of “programming teaching integrated into the education of elementary schools”. The research object of this study is based on the cub scout pack of the author’s teaching school, a total of 28 cubs. During the research process,teachers first use their own interactive monographic exploration activities,to guide students in exploring and researching monographic exploration activities,At the same time, teachers use the programmatic exploration system developed by the author to conduct collaborative learning and train computing thinking.It is used to improve the problem solving ability and team cohesion of the students, and finally completes and publishes the team’s works. The experiment lasted for six weeks in eight lessons, totaling 320 minutes, data collection and analysis, and quantitative statistics.In addition to using the programmatic inquiry system, the research tools used the CTS scale developed by Korkmaz, Çakir, and Özden (2017), the PSI scale developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982), and Glass and Benshoff (2002). The team develops strength tables. In this study, the “single group pretest-posttest design” of the experimental research method was used for the study, and the pretest questionnaire was completed before the experiment teaching. After the end of the teaching, the posttest was performed. The quantitative data were statistically compared with the Paired-Samples t test. Semi-structured interviews for an in-depth analysis of changes in team cohesion.Based on the results, this study believes that the Monographic Exploration Activities Programming System does help to improve the problem solving ability and team cohesion of the elementary school students.
Keywords :Programming, Computational Thinking, Problem Solving, Team Cohesion