The Impact Of Gamification Programming Teaching Based On Metacognitive Scaffolding On The Pupils' Problem-Solving Ability

In recent years,programming education has become increasingly necessary in information technology courses with people's attention to students' computational thinking and information consciousness.Gamification teaching,with "teaching goes together with pleasure" as its core concept,has gradually entered the field of programming education because of the difficulty and dullness of programming itself.Gamification teaching,a unique teaching method,has a great significance in stimulating students' participation and promoting their computational thinking ability and logical thinking ability.Therefore,it has become an outstanding example in information technology programming teaching.However,as a graphical programming software,Scratch programming has become a good tool for gamification teaching because of its features of modularity,interactivity and entertainment,etc.Therefore,this study adopts the gamification teaching method in Scratch programming education.However,the method of combining theory with practice promoted by gamification teaching is hard for students to adopt.At the same time,students' attention is easily distracted by entertaining teaching methods and contents.Therefore,gamification teaching also brings challenges to teachers and students.What's more,in the teaching of gamification programming based on Scratch,metacognitive scaffolding can be provided for students,which can help them regulate in the process of problem solving to promote the solving of their problems.Furthermore,this study attempts to combine metacognitive scaffolding with the gamification teaching based on Scratch to research its influence on the pupils'problem-solving ability.Firstly,the writer has read a lot of documents to sort out the current research situation of gamification teaching,scaffolding instruction and problem-solving ability.Secondly,according to the operation paradigm of gamification teaching,the process mode of problem solving and the design and implementation of metacognitive scaffolding,a gamification programming teaching mode based on metacognitive scaffold was designed,and carries out the teaching design which takes "the affiliated elementary school in my heart" as its theme.Then,the writer chooses the experimental class and the control class from the Affiliated Primary School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology,and then performs an 11-weeks experiment to compare the different effects of combining or not combining metacognitive scaffolding with the gamification programming teaching based on Scratch.Finally,the writer conducts the quantitative and qualitative data analysis through the collected questionnaires,student works and task lists,and then assesses the influence of the use of metacognitive scaffolding in the gamification teaching based on Scratch on the primary school students' problem-solving ability.This paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of students' works,task lists and questionnaires through the research methods of quasi-experimental research,survey research.Then,the writer draws the following conclusions:(1)Gamification programming teaching based on metacognitive scaffolding can significantly improve students' problem-solving ability;(2)Gamification programming teaching based on metacognitive scaffold has no significant impact on the students' metacognitive ability,but it significantly improves the cognitive strategies in metacognitive ability;(3)Students' metacognitive ability is closely related to their problem-solving ability,and cognitive strategies and monitoring strategies in metacognitive ability can positively predict students' problem-solving ability.