• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.385-398
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• 2015

In this study, we presented a App Inventor utilization Software Education program in the process of education for Computational Thinking improvement of elementary school girls. In order to analyze the effects of education programs that have been developed, to elect the 3, 4, 5 grade girls of the sample of volunteers by volunteers form collection as an experimental population, was charged with the development programs, and It was analyzed educational effect using the results of the pre-post tests. The results of the analysis, App Inventor utilization Software Education program that was developed in this study it was found that help in Computational Thinking kidney of elementary school girls.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2018.08a
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• pp.117-120
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• 2018

이 연구의 목적은 기존 SW 교육 관련 연구들을 조사 및 수집하여 메타분석을 통해 컴퓨팅 사고력 향상에 미치는 전체 효과크기의 산출과 다양한 변인에 따른 효과크기를 확인하여 컴퓨팅 사고력에 대한 SW 교육의 실제적 효과를 객관적으로 확인하여 일반화하는데 있다. 이 연구의 결과는 1)SW 교육프로그램이 학생들의 컴퓨팅 사고력을 중간 정도의 크기로 향상시키는 교수 학습방법임을 확인하였다. 2)SW 교육 방식 중 EPL을 활용한 교육프로그램이, 연구대상은 대학생이, 연구지역은 중소도시/읍면지역에서 컴퓨팅 사고력 향상 효과가 큰 것으로 확인되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.229-241
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• 2020

In this study, we developed a test tool to measure the computational thinking ability of middle school students and investigated their computational thinking power using the tool. The test tool used exploratory factor analysis to examine the computational thinking scales of Korkmaz et al. (2017) and derive suitable factors and questions for middle school students in Korea. The developed test tool was applied to 492 middle school students to analyze differences in computational thinking ability according to gender, grade, programming experience, type of programming language, and interest. According to the study, male Korean middle school students had higher computing power than females. In addition, students who had programming experience or used text-based rather than block-based programming languages demonstrated higher computational thinking. There was no significant difference in the computational thinking of middle school students according to grade, and the level of interest in artificial intelligence only had a slight influence on computational thinking.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.21-33
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• 2018

The 2015 revised national curriculum emphasizes software education according to national and social needs for the development of computational thinking. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze meaningful factors influencing the development of computational thinking ability, as well as researches on various teaching, learning and evaluation methods. The purpose of this study is to analyze secondary school students' computational thinking ability in the Bebras challenge 2017 tasks and the participants' results of the challenge, and to figure out the differences according to factors such as evaluation area, gender, and region. The results of this study are meaningful to understand the factors for the development of computational thinking and to suggest directions for the improvement of Bebras challenge as a evaluation tool for computational thinking ability.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.89-99
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to statistically analyze the correlation between unplugged activities using SW educational board games and computational thinking ability of elementary school students, and then find a method of SW education through the results. The study was conducted with 40 students in the 5th grade at an Elementary School in Incheon. Students participated at unplugged activities using a board game for SW education with 12 hours of teacher guidance and 10 hours of free activities. After that, a post-test was conducted to analyze the degree of improvement in computational thinking ability. As the results, it was confirmed that the comprehensive computational thinking ability was improved, and that the four areas of the sub-domains of computational thinking ability were improved to a significant level. These results suggest that providing a basic SW education experience by utilizing a board game for SW education helps to improve students' computational thinking ability.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.41-47
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• 2020

Computational Thinking(CT) is drawing attention as a core competency required for future talent in the 21st century. Software education for improving CT ability at home and abroad is in full swing. Among them, problem-solving programming education helps to improve CT ability. The CT-TDPS learning model follows the decomposition, abstraction thinking process, which modularizes complex problems, and the Agile development method, which is an iterative and incremental programming method to implement it. In this study, we tried to confirm the improvement of CT ability by applying CT-TDPS learning model to problem solving programming education using Scratch. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that in the problem solving programming education using the CT-TDPS learning model, it improved in all aspects of computing concept, computing performance, and computing perspective, which are sub-factors of CT ability. In addition, it was confirmed that there was a significant difference in the experimental group as a result of the t-test on the Dr.Scratch automatic evaluation result.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.100-109
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• 2020

At the beginning of the discussion of early childhood software education, the study was conducted to apply an early childhood software education program based on computational thinking and analyze the effects of early childhood software education programs. In this study, a balanced distribution of software education, content elements and computing thinking elements was applied to achieve the ultimate goal of software education, which is to improve computing thinking. As early as possible, it's a good idea to start teaching to remind themselves how to think through experiences and play activities and to discover problems and find solutions by themselves. In the analysis results, early childhood software education program we applied affected positive impacts on software education effect, computational thinking of early childhood. Based on these results, a program was proposed for systematic early childhood software education that effective develope of computational thinking.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 2019

SW education has been incorporated into the regular curriculum since the 2015 curriculum due to the social changes caused by the 4th industrial revolution. The most important thing in SW education is the improvement of Computational Thinking. The study on the underprivileged who have little opportunity for education was relatively inadequate. In this study, CT competency of 135 underprivileged students were measured who were suffering from educational underprivileged. The underprivileged students were recruited from 15 local children's centers in Namyangju city and recruited 210 general students from B elementary schools in Namyangju city by setting up a selection criterion. As a result of comparing the CT competence between the two groups, it was found that the CT competence of the underprivileged students was lower than that of the general students, and suggested several implications with this result.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.987-994
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• 2021

Computational Thinking is an analytical thinking ability that is necessary for everyone and everywhere. The existing Computational Thinking development education provided in Practical textbooks leads to block-based programming languages from unplugged activities. Many unplugged activities focus on practicing sequential order, which may lack the learning of abstractions or automation concepts. In block-based programming languages, concepts such as coordinate planes, which are not introduced in elementary school curriculum, appear, making students feel burdened by the block-based programming language itself. In this study, a curriculum was designed for elementary student's computational thinking through game-based programming language education. The results and their effectiveness were analyzed through the beaver challenge. As a result of analyzing the pre-test and post-test scores, it was confirmed that students' computational thinking skills improved.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.335-342
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• 2017

The artificial intelligence, robot technology, Internet of things, and life sciences that create added value while dramatically transforming human life have been highlighted in the fourth industrial revolution, the next industrial revolution. In order to adapt to the 4th industry, it is necessary to educate students to develop fusion thinking and computing thinking ability. Therefore, in this study, we developed a digital Yut Playing system based on physical computing, reflecting STEAM and decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm design, which are components of computing thinking. By experiencing the developed system and applying it to education, it raised interest and interest in programming education and improved programming lesson for fusion thinking and computing thinking ability.