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Analysis of the effect of non-face-to-face online SW education program on the computational thinking ability of students from the underprivileged class

비대면 온라인 SW 교육 프로그램이 소외계층 학생의 컴퓨팅 사고력에 미치는 영향 분석

  • Lee, Jaeho (Dept. of Computer Education, Gyeongin Nat'l University of Education) ;
  • Lee, Seunghoon (Jangmyong Elementary School)
  • Received : 2021.08.06
  • Accepted : 2021.10.25
  • Published : 2021.11.30
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Abstract

As computational thinking has been noted as an important competency worldwide, SW education was introduced in the 2015 revised curriculum, and SW education has been applied to the curriculum from 2018. However, in a poor educational environment, the educationally underprivileged class is in the blind spot of SW education and is not receiving systematic SW education. Therefore, this study analyzed the effect of conducting a non-face-to-face SW online education program for 267 underprivileged elementary school students in education at a time when non-face-to-face online education was being conducted through the COVID-19 mass infectious disease. As a result of conducting the computational thinking ability test, which abstraction, problem decomposition, algorithm, automation, and data processing, before and after education, the overall score of computational thinking and the score of all five factors were statistically significantly increased(p<0.001). Among the five factors, there was the highest score improvement in data processing score. These results suggest that the non-face-to-face SW online education program is effective in improving the computational thinking ability of elementary school students from the educational underprivileged class.

컴퓨팅 사고력이 세계적으로 중요한 역량으로 주목받으면서 2015 개정 교육과정에서 SW 교육이 도입되었으며, 2018년부터 교육과정에 SW 교육이 적용되었다. 하지만 열악한 교육 환경에 있는 교육 소외계층은 SW 교육의 사각지대에 있으며, 체계적인 SW 교육을 받지 못하는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 코로나-19 집단 감염병을 통해 비대면 온라인 교육이 진행되고 있는 시점에서, 267명의 교육 소외계층 초등학생을 대상으로 비대면 SW 온라인 교육 프로그램을 시행하여 그 효과를 분석하였다. 추상화, 문제분해, 알고리즘, 자동화, 데이터 처리의 요소로 구성된 컴퓨팅 사고력 검사를 교육 전과 후에 실시한 결과 컴퓨팅 사고력 전체 점수와 다섯가지 모든 요소의 점수가 통계적으로 유의미하게 높아졌다(p<0.001). 다섯 가지 요소 중에서는 데이터 처리 점수에서 가장 높은 점수의 향상이 있었다. 이러한 결과는 비대면 SW 온라인 교육 프로그램이 교육 소외계층 초등학생들의 컴퓨팅 사고력 향상에 효과가 있음을 시사한다.

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