STEAM WORKS: Student coders experiment more and experimenters gain higher grades
STEAM WORKS: Student coders experiment more and experimenters gain higher grades
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10.1109/educon.2017.7942873
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2017-04
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M. Yee-King;M. Grierson;M. d'Inverno
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M. Yee-King;M. Grierson;M. d'Inverno
在过去的十年中，人们对 STEAM 方法（本质上是将艺术、人文和社会科学的方法和实践结合到 STEM 教学和研究中）越来越感兴趣，以发展更好的研究和教育，并使我们能够培养出能够在当前和发展中的市场中最有效地工作的学生。然而，尽管有这种兴趣，但似乎很少有定量证据证明 STEAM 学习的真正力量，特别是描述它如何与更成熟的方法进行比较和表现。为了解决这个问题，我们对两种不同的编程教学方法进行了比较、定量研究，一种基于 STEAM（采用开放式探究方法），另一种基于更传统的非 STEAM 方法（设置并解决受限问题）。我们的主要结果证明了学生如何在不同类型的课程中展示不同的编程风格，而且最重要的是，倾向于展示更多在我们的 STEAM 课程中观察到的编程风格的学生也往往会取得更高的成绩。尽管研究规模较小，但我们通过一系列可视化和统计验证来表达我们的主张，这些可视化和统计验证清楚地显示了结果的重要性。我们相信，这项工作为 STEAM 相对于非 STEAM 的优势提供了明确的证据，并为未来更大规模的研究提供了强有力的理论和技术框架。
For the last decade, there has been growing interest in the STEAM approach (essentially combining methods and practices in arts, humanities and social sciences into STEM teaching and research) to develop better research and education, and enable us to produce students who can work most effectively in the current and developing market-place. However, despite this interest, there seems to be little quantitative evidence of the true power of STEAM learning, especially describing how it compares and performs with respect to more established approaches. To address this, we present a comparative, quantitative study of two distinct approaches to teaching programming, one based on STEAM (with an open-ended inquiry-based approach), the other based on a more traditional, non-STEAM approach (where constrained problems are set and solved). Our key results evidence how students exhibit different styles of programming in different types of lessons and, crucially, that students who tend to exhibit more of the style of programming observed in our STEAM lessons also tend to achieve higher grades. We present our claims through a range of visualisations and statistical validations which clearly show the significance of the results, despite the small scale of the study. We believe that this work provides clear evidence for the advantages of STEAM over non-STEAM, and provides a strong theoretical and technological framework for future, larger studies.