Authors : Eunkyoung Lee, Seong-Won Kim and Youngjun Lee
Abstract: The research trends of software education research in Korea are analyzed in this study. Research papers related to software education were collected by the research information sharing service using the words “software education” and “SW education”. The collected papers were selected for final analysis through expert review. The analytical criteria developed for the purposes of this study were based on previous studies. The results of the study were derived by analyzing the papers based on the developed analytical criteria. A considerable number of studies are being conducted to simplify teaching programming in software education. The research methods are primarily related to the development/application, analysis of theory/content and investigation of condition/awareness. Only a few studies have analyzed the effectiveness of software education. The study subjects of software education have been extremely biased. Elementary school students and the literature were the most frequent, followed by pre-service and in-service teachers. Relatively little research has been conducted on middle and high school students. In addition, to the research subjects being concentrated, they were concentrated in a specific area as a test tool used in the study. Moreover, many of the test tools that were used were developed on their own. Lastly, a block-based programming language was used as the programming language in the study and physical computing devices were rarely used. Software education research is extremely biased. Research using various research methods, subjects and languages is needed.
Eunkyoung Lee, Seong-Won Kim and Youngjun Lee, 2018. The Analysis on Research Trends for Software Education in Korea. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 2951-2956.