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Critten, Valerie; Hagon, Hannah; Messer, David – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Guided play activities were developed so that coding clubs could promote computational thinking skills in preschool children. The clubs involved fifteen children aged between 2 and 4 years, including a group of children with communication difficulties. The children took part in an action-research scoping study over three coding clubs involving six…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Programming, Coding, Play
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Kim, ChanMin; Belland, Brian R.; Baabdullah, Afaf; Lee, Eunseo; Dinç, Emre; Zhang, Anna Y. – AERA Open, 2021
Tinkering is often viewed as arbitrary practice that should be avoided. However, tinkering can be performed as part of a sound reasoning process. In this ethnomethodological study, we investigated tinkering as a reasoning process that construes logical inferences. This is a new asset-based approach that can be applied in computer science…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Inferences
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Avci, Canan; Deniz, Mine Nur – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Computational thinking (CT) is considered a group of problem-solving skills that the next generations are expected to possess. The most efficient way to make them acquire these skills is to incorporate CT into K-12 education. To this end, various education programs have been designed to improve teachers' and prospective teachers' competence in CT.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Bezuidenhout, Hanrie S.; Henning, Elizabeth – Pythagoras, 2022
The current quantitative study, a naturalistic field experiment, was conducted in a public primary school in Soweto, Johannesburg, with the objective to examine how children's achievement on four assessments at the beginning of Grade R, namely their numeracy, their mathematics-specific vocabulary, their executive functions, and their logical…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 1