Design and Spread of Courseware of Learning Programming at Girls' Junior High Schools

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350363
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Kyoto Notre Dame University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIDA Tomoko 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 人間文化学部, 教授 (60329977)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 松浦 敏雄 大阪市立大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (40127296) ; 中西 通雄 大阪工業大学, 情報科学部, 教授 (30227847) ; 原田 章 追手門学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (10263336)
• Research Collaborator: NAKAMURA Ryota 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: プログラミング教育 / 中学「技術」 / LilyPad Arduino / プログラミング学習環境

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Since academic year 2012 “the mechanism of measurement and control by programs” has been required in junior high school technical arts and home economics courses. For such instruction most teaching materials use cars and robots. However, some girls show no interest in cars or robots. Therefore, we need more variety.
In this research we designed teaching materials that help students learn programming through making “Kawaii”(cute) handicrafts. We could examine the effectiveness of our courseware by using at a girls' junior high school.

Free Research Field

教育工学