Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children
There is growing interest in teaching computer science and programming skills in schools. Here we investigated the efficacy of peer tutoring, which is known to be a useful educational resource in other domains but never before has been examined in such a core aspect of applied logical thinking i...
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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Computer programming Teaching Peer tutoring Exploratory behavior Learning by teaching K-12 education de la Hera, Diego P. Zanoni, María B. Sigman, Mariano Calero, Cecilia Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children |
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There is growing interest in teaching computer science and programming
skills in schools. Here we investigated the efficacy of
peer tutoring, which is known to be a useful educational resource
in other domains but never before has been examined in such a
core aspect of applied logical thinking in children. We compared
(a) how children (N = 42, age range = 7 years 1 month to 8 years
4 months) learn computer programming from an adult versus
learning from a peer and (b) the effect of teaching a peer versus
simply revising what has been learned. Our results indicate that
children taught by a peer showed comparable overall performance—
a combination of accuracy and response times—to their
classmates taught by an adult. However, there was a speed–accuracy
trade-off, and peer-taught children showed more exploratory
behavior, with shorter response times at the expense of lower
accuracy. In contrast, no tutor effects (i.e., resulting from teaching
a peer) were found. Thus, our results provide empirical evidence in
support of peer tutoring as a way to help teach computer programming
to children. This could contribute to the promotion of a widespread
understanding of how computers operate and how to shape
them, which is essential to our values of democracy, plurality, and
freedom. |
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Artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedversion |
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de la Hera, Diego P. Zanoni, María B. Sigman, Mariano Calero, Cecilia |
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de la Hera, Diego P. Zanoni, María B. Sigman, Mariano Calero, Cecilia |
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de la Hera, Diego P. |
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Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children |
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Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children |
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peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children |
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology |
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2022 |
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