Share Paper: How Instructivist versus Constructivist Pedagogical Perspectives of Code Teachers Affect Visual Programming Artifacts of Students?

  1. Ina Blau, The Open University of Israel, Israel
  2. Tamar Shamir-Inbal, The Open University of Israel, Israel
  3. Avital Kesler, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Wednesday, June 22 10:15-10:40 AM Liberty 1&2

Abstract: The integration of visual programming in formal education has been found to promote computational thinking of students. Teachers' intuitive perspectives about optimal learning processes – "folk psychology" – impact their perspectives about teaching "folk pedagogy" and play a significant role in integrating educational technologies, such as visual programming, within the formal curriculum. Initially this mixed-method study distributed a folk pedagogy questionnaire to 89 teachers who integrate differing technologies in their classroom, in order to identify the teachers' pedagogical perspectives: constructivist versus instructivist. We then analyzed students' programming artifacts to explore differences, if any, in student outcomes related to the pedagogical ...