Monika Mladenovic

Work place: Elementary school Blatine-Skrape, Split, 21000, Croatia

E-mail: monika.mladenovic@skole.hr

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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Architecture and Organization

Biography

Monika Mladenović is Computer science teacher working in elementary school Blatine-Skrape in Split, Croatia since 2012. She is also an external associate at the Faculty of Science, University of Split (Croatia) at Computer science department on undergraduate and graduate level since 2011. From 2003 to 2012 she was working as a programmer and is still periodically working as a programmer as an external associate. She is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Science, University of Split (Croatia). Her research interest includes computer programming teaching and learning.

Author Articles
Comparing Elementary Students’ Programming Success based on Programming Environment

By Monika Mladenovic Marko Rosic Sasa Mladenovic

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2016.08.01, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2016

In the Republic of Croatia Informatics is an elective course in elementary school for students from 5th to 8th grade. When it comes to programming language teachers can choose between BASIC and Logo. There are a lot of new programming environments for learning and teaching programming like Scratch and also new ways of teaching programming like game based learning. This study compares attitudinal and learning outcomes of 7th-grade students programming in Logo and Scratch. The classes were normal classes, non-extracurricular activities. The questionnaire is used to measure the attitude towards programming and programming languages. The test is constructed to measure learned programming concepts in both compared programming languages Logo and Scratch. Results showed that learning Scratch first can provide a better understanding of basic programming concept for novices in elementary school than Logo.

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