Development and Evaluation of Functions for Elementary/Secondary Programming Education: The Visual Programming Environment “AT”
Nao Kono, Hisayoshi Kunimune, Tatsuki Yamamoto, Masaaki Niimura · International Journal of e-Education e-Business e-Management and e-Learning · 2017
The Japanese government has recently addressed the issue of promoting programming education in elementary/secondary education to develop students' ability to utilize information.The curriculum guidelines for junior high school and high school, published by the Japanese government, also include programming education for understanding measurement/control systems and developing problem-solving ability.This study developed a visual programming environment called AT, which was implemented in programming classes for novices in some universities and a technical college.With the objective of introducing the AT environment into elementary/secondary programming education, this study also developed some functionalities of AT that offer users intuitive operation capabilities on tablet devices for AT's editor.We conducted a survey for evaluating the intuitive operation in an actual classroom, and the usability and comprehensibility of the editor were highly evaluated by the students.