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Dunhong Yao; Jing Lin – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Programming education consistently faces challenges in bridging theory with practice and fostering students' cognitive competencies. This 12-year longitudinal study (2011-2023) investigates an innovative competency-based teaching model in university C programming education that integrates six educational theories into a coherent framework with…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Science Education, Programming, Longitudinal Studies
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Zhan, Zehui; He, Wenchang; Yi, Xitian; Ma, Shuyao – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
This paper examined the effect of the Unplugged Programming Teaching Aids (UPTA) on students' computational thinking and classroom interaction. A set of UPTA was created and used in a primary school in southern China. A total of 48 students aged 6-8 were assigned to two classes, with the same instructor and learning materials, but only the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Shi, Fuqian; Wei, Jincai – International Education Studies, 2008
In the current teaching activities on curriculum, teachers taught all kinds of computer language at the most of the time. Students also focus on a variety of examinations, but the real time to train students' independent software developing skill is very limited. This has resulted in the students only to copy other people's systems design ideas,…
Descriptors: Programming, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Science Activities