A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF STUDIES ON UNPLUGGED COMPUTING IN ELEMENTARY/HIGH SCHOOL AND HIGHER EDUCATION FROM 2014 TO 2020

A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF STUDIES ON UNPLUGGED COMPUTING IN ELEMENTARY/HIGH SCHOOL AND HIGHER EDUCATION FROM 2014 TO 2020: TRENDS IN THE FIELD

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of scientific papers on Unplugged Computing (UC) in Elementary/High School and Higher Education, published from 2014 to 2020 in some of the main Brazilian academic communities related to Computer Sciences and Education: SBIE, WIE, WCBIE, RBIE, RENOTE, WEI, WIT and ANPED. To do so, we followed the main research protocol steps and searched through the electronic databases. From all the studies we found, we selected the sixty-seven that met our inclusion criteria. The main results show there is an increase in the number of research on the use of UC in Elementary/High School, mainly in Elementary School and public schools. Most studies are based on activities from the book Computer Science Unplugged and on independently developed unplugged activities. The most common concepts in those studies are Algorithm, Programming Logic, and Binary Numbers. Most studies are carried out without any explicit relation to subjects from the Base Nacional Curricular Comum (National Brazilian Common Syllabus).