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Filiz Kuskaya Mumcu; Branko Andic; Mirjana Maricic; Mathias Tejera; Zsolt Lavicza – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2025
Many education policy strategy documents at the European Union level, as well as national strategies of various countries, recommend including computational thinking as a fundamental skill in curricula. The professional development of teachers should be supported to disseminate computational thinking in K12 education. Teachers' value beliefs about…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Value Judgment, Beliefs, Computation
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Rich, Peter J.; Larsen, Ross A.; Mason, Stacie L. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
This study sought to identify factors that affect teachers' beliefs about teaching computing in their classrooms. By reviewing existing scales and research on computing, we created the Teacher Beliefs about Coding and Computational Thinking (TBaCCT) scale. Through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling we validated the scale…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Attitude Measures, Test Construction
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Medveckis, Arturs; Pigozne, Tamara; Tomsons, Dzintars – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
Life-long learning, including development of professional competence, is an essential paradigm of the 21st century. The goal of this research is to analyse the quality and efficiency of the educators' professional competence enhancement programme dubbed "Fundamentals of Programming in Visual Programming Environment Scratch" in accordance…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Technological Literacy, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education