| Presentation | 2021-03-06 Analysis on Acquisition of Computational Thinking Skills in Scratch by Focusing on Project Genres Rei Wakamatsu, Erina Makihara, Hirotaka Yoneda, Keiko Ono, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Recently, there has been a growing interest in computational thinking (CT) skills.CT skills are computational thinking skills that IT engineers should have.In order to foster CT skills, programming education has been implemented in Japan since the 2020 school year, with the use of Scratch recommended.However, since there is little information about the relationship between Scratch programs and CT skills, it is not easy to provide programming tasks to improve students' CT skills efficiently.Therefore, in order to investigate which tasks are suitable for beginning programming students, we focused on the project genre of Scratch programs and tried to clarify the relationship between them and CT skills.We conducted a cluster analysis of 5,000 programs posted on the Scratch community site. We focused on the clusters with low CT skills and analyzed the characteristics of the corresponding programs.As a result, we found that programs with a high degree of musicianship, such as one that plays sounds, requiring repetitive processing and user input, and using two or three sprites and stages were good challenges. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | computational thinking skills / Scratch / Dr. Scratch / project genres |
| Paper # | KBSE2020-40 |
| Date of Issue | 2021-02-26 (KBSE) |
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| Committee | KBSE |
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| Conference Date | 2021/3/5(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Online |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Chair | Hiroyuki Nakagawa(Osaka Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Takuya Saruwatari(NTT Data) |
| Secretary | Takuya Saruwatari(OKI) |
| Assistant | Shinpei Ogata(Shinshu Univ.) / Erina Nakihara(Doshisha Univ,) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Analysis on Acquisition of Computational Thinking Skills in Scratch by Focusing on Project Genres |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | computational thinking skills |
| Keyword(2) | Scratch |
| Keyword(3) | Dr. Scratch |
| Keyword(4) | project genres |
| 1st Author's Name | Rei Wakamatsu |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Doshisha University(Doshisha Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Erina Makihara |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Doshisha University(Doshisha Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hirotaka Yoneda |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Doshisha University(Doshisha Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Keiko Ono |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Doshisha University(Doshisha Univ.) |
| Date | 2021-03-06 |
| Paper # | KBSE2020-40 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.120 |
| Number (no) | KBSE-423 |
| Page | pp.pp.36-41(KBSE), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2021-02-26 (KBSE) |