Visual Environment for Beginners to Learn the Mechanisms of Measurement and Control by Programs

本研究的目的是开发和确认学习支持软件和教材的有效性，学习新的主题“测量和控制的程序”，这是作为一个必修科目，在日本的初中技术学习课程的修订。为此，我们首先安装了一个插件功能，以向我们的研究小组开发的新手编程环境（PEN）添加功能。利用这一功能，我们增加了一套控制硬件Arduino的新功能，并开发了学习支持软件，以学习通过程序进行测量和控制。我们还准备了几个例子的教材，学习测量和控制的程序，通过使用开发的学习支持软件。

The purpose of this study is to develop and confirm the validity of learning support software and educational materials for studying the new subject "Measurement and Control by Programs", which was introduced as a compulsory subject in the revised Course of Study for Technology for lower secondary schools in Japan. To this end, we first installed a plug-in feature to add functions to the Programing Environment for Novices (PEN), which was developed by our study group. Using this feature, we added a new set of functions that controls the hardware Arduino, and developed learning support software to study measurement and control by programs. We further prepared several examples of educational materials to learn measurement and control by programs by using the developed learning support software.