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Pérez-Marín DCorresponding AuthorHijón-Neira RAuthorRomero AAuthor

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October 10, 2022
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Is the use of Makey Makey Helpful to Teach Programming Concepts to Primary Education Students?

Publicated to:Research Anthology On Computational Thinking, Programming, And Robotics In The Classroom. 2 631-647 - 2022-01-01 2(), DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2411-7.ch029

Authors: Pérez-Marín D; Hijón-Neira R; Romero A; Cruz S

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Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain - Author

Abstract

New computer devices such as Makey Makey are proposed for children in primary education to learn computer programming. That way, students can interact with the computer with any conductive material, such as fruits or Play-Doh. The research question is whether playing with fruits as interactive devices can help primary education students learn concepts of computer programming. An experiment has been performed to answer the question with 62 primary education children. The results gathered provide significant evidence that students can learn more without using the fruits. Psychological factors may explain these results. © 2022 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.

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Quality education

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

Esta aportación ha sido publicada por la editorial Igi Global according to the SPI Ranking, it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022-01-01, es considerada como de las mejores posicionadas, concretamente el Q1.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-08-08:

  • Open Alex: 1
  • Scopus: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-08:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 4 (PlumX).
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 4 - Quality Education, with a probability of 88% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Pérez Marín, Diana Rosario) and Last Author ().

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Pérez Marín, Diana Rosario.