The influence of visual programming learning on logical thinking and reasoning ability for the sixth grade students in elementary school

摘要

This study is mainly to investigate the influence of the logical thinking and reasoning ability after the sixth grade students of elementary school have learned visual programming. The findings of this study are the following: (1) students in the experimental group have more significant improvements on the logical thinking and reasoning ability; (2) the different learning styles of students in the experimental group have significant improvements on the ascensive progress of the logical thinking and reasoning ability. But there is no difference between the four types of terms of the students. (3) The learning attitude of students in the experimental group generally are high, like holding interest, willing to try and fix, patience for modifying the program, holding a positive learning attitude, and doing their works independently. (4) The students who have a better logical thinking and reasoning ability improved significantly on learning performance and logical thinking and reasoning ability test, after they learned how to use the visual programming design flow chart to help them understand the learning content.