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Case Study on Problem-based Programming Classes in Software Education for Non-Computer Science Majors

  • Received : 2020.01.20
  • Accepted : 2020.04.19
  • Published : 2020.04.29
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Abstract

Recently, as awareness of the need for software education has spread worldwide, the government of Korea has led compulsory software education also. Basic software education in universities has been stabilized through various trials and efforts. However, due to software classes are mandatory, students not only could not have motivation for learning but also have treated programming course as a difficult subject. In this paper, two programming classes, which were designed and managed as a problem-oriented programming class for the purpose of cultivating computational thinking for the non-computer science students, are compared using the lecture assessment results. As a result, in the case of expanding the use of the problem as a grammatical explanation aid and expanding the ratio of major-friendly problems, the student's responses were concentrated on higher scores and the response average improved by about 7%. It means that the level of difficulty experienced by learners is lowered.

최근 소프트웨어 교육의 필요성에 대한 인식이 전 세계적으로 확산됨에 따라 우리나라도 정부 주도로 소프트웨어 의무 교육을 수행하고 있다. 대학에서의 소프트웨어 기초교육은 다양한 시행착오를 거쳐 안정화 되고는 있지만, 학생들의 비자발적 수강으로 인한 학습 동기 부족과 프로그래밍에 대한 높은 체감 난이도는 여전히 해결해야 할 문제로 남아 있다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨팅 사고 역량 배양을 목적으로 문제 중심 프로그래밍 교과로 설계 및 운영된 컴퓨터과학 비전공 학생 대상 수업 사례를 수업 평가 결과를 이용해 비교하였다. 비교 결과, 문제의 용도를 문법 설명 보조재로 확대하고 전공 친화형 문제 비율을 확대 운영한 사례에서는 학습자들의 응답이 더 높은 점수에 집중되었고 응답 평균은 약 7% 향상되었다. 이는 학습자들이 느끼는 교과에 대한 체감 난도가 낮아졌음을 의미한다.

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