The purpose of this study is to obtain educational implications through a meta-analysis of the effects of unplugged computing education for elementary school students. For this purpose, we investigated the results of research papers collected through 5 academic databases. The conclusions and implications from the discussion of the research results are as follows.
First, the effect of unplugged computing education was slightly lower than that of programming using EPL, so it is necessary to study the appropriateness of learning points and learning time of unplugged computing and EPL programming when organizing a software curriculum. Second, unplugged computing education hads a greater effect on the elementary school students affective domain than their cognitive domain, so it is necessary to design unplugged computing classes in consideration of theseis balanced education effects. Third, the greater effect of unplugged computing education in higher grades than in middle grades suggests that unplugged computing activities need to be examined more precisely to see how learning effects vary according to children s developmental stages. Fourth, unplugged computing education should be actively applied across the entire subjects because the difference between the educational effect on the information domain and non-information domain is not so large. Fifth, the result that unplugged computing education through cooperative learning is more effective requires a classroom environment where cooperative group learning and individual learning are harmonized. Sixth, the result that the unplugged computing activity applied with the converged lessons can have a greater effect suggests that the application of the converged unplugged computing education including the various subject areas is necessary.