Teaching Methods for Computer Science Education in the Context of Significant Learning Theories

Abstract

Answers to the questions of which teaching methods are suitable for school and should be applied in teaching individual subjects and also how teaching methods support them act of learning represent challenges to general education and education in individual subjects. This study focuses on teaching methods for computer science education with respect to significant learning theories. Using an expert survey, subjects rated the importance of behavioristic, cognitivist and constructivist learning theories for 20 teaching methods. The result of the study makes it clear that the importance of learning theories for certain teaching methods in computer science education is different. Teaching methods can be assigned to learning theories and can benefit from the empirical findings of the learning theories. Moreover, the result is an important contribution to the development of a theory of teaching methods for computer science education, which is still lacking.