Proposal on Programming Education for Preschoolers and Measurement of Effectiveness

With the development of the Internet and the spread of smart devices, almost all generations nowadays are using smartphones and tablet PC on daily basis. Under these circumstances, each country is promoting the introduction of programming education for early age children, and software called a visual programming language that can be programmed using pictures and diagrams is being developed. This paper had proposed a method for measuring the educational effect when such visual programming was practiced for preschoolers. We had made evaluation data by observing children's programming practice, and we will discuss and evaluate the proposed method and how to utilize the acquired data.