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Fostering Creative Thinking Skills through Computer Programming: Explicit or Integrated Teaching?
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Sendag, Serkan; Yakin, Ilker; Gedik, Nuray – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Teaching programming skills has attracted a great deal of attention for more than a decade. One potential reason behind this is that the explicit teaching of computer programming can improve higher-order thinking skills, such as creativity. Moreover, whether or not creative programming learning activities, such as the use of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Information Technology, Programming, Computer Science Education
Social Addictive Gameful Engineering (SAGE): A Game-Based Learning and Assessment System for Computational Thinking
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Jeff Bender – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At an unrivaled and enduring pace, computing has transformed the world, resulting in demand for a universal fourth foundation beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic: computational thinking (CT). Despite increasingly widespread acceptance of CT as a crucial competency for all, transforming education systems accordingly has proven complex. The…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Game Based Learning, Evaluation Methods, Computation
Attending to Structural Programming Features Predicts Differences in Learning and Motivation
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Witherspoon, Eben B.; Schunn, Christian D.; Higashi, Ross M.; Shoop, Robin – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
Educational robotics programs offer an engaging opportunity to potentially teach core computer science concepts and practices in K-12 classrooms. Here, we test the effects of units with different programming content within a virtual robotics context on both learning gains and motivational changes in middle school (6th-8th grade) robotics…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computer Science Education, Programming, Units of Study
Computer Programming with Pre-K through First-Grade Students with Intellectual Disabilities
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Taylor, Matthew S. – Journal of Special Education, 2018
Researchers suggest students in early elementary grade levels are active learners and creators and need to be exposed to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curriculum. The need for student understanding in STEM curriculum is well-documented, and positive results in robotics and computer programming are leading researchers and…
Descriptors: Programming, Primary Education, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Challenging Elementary Learners with Programmable Robots during Free Play and Direct Instruction
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McCoy-Parker, Kimberly S.; Paull, Lindsey N.; Rule, Audrey C.; Montgomery, Sarah E. – Journal of STEM Arts, Crafts, and Constructions, 2017
Computer programming skills are important to many current careers; teaching robot coding to elementary students can start a positive foundation for technological careers, develop problem-solving skills, and growth mindsets. This study, through a repeated measures design involving students in two classrooms at two widely-separated grade levels…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 5, Programming
Pair Programming and LSs in Computing Education: Its Impact on Students' Performances
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Hui, Tie Hui; Umar, Irfan Naufal – Online Submission, 2011
Learning to programme requires complex cognitive skills that computing students find it arduous in comprehension. PP (pair programming) is an intensive style of programme cooperation where two people working together in resolving programming scenarios. It begins to draw the interests of educators as a teaching approach to facilitate learning and…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Educational Strategies, Experimental Groups, Control Groups