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Download full textZhanxia Yang; Patricia Moore Shaffer; Courtney Hagan; Parastu Dubash; Marina Bers – Grantee Submission, 2023
The aim of this study was to explore how the Coding as Another Language (CAL) curriculum, developed by Boston College's DevTech Research Group and utilizing the ScratchJr app, impacted students' computational thinking, coding skills, and reading comprehension. To accomplish this, the research team randomly assigned thirteen schools in a…
Descriptors: Coding, Second Language Learning, Curriculum Development, Programming Languages
Direct linkTucker, Stephen I.; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Westenskow, Arla; Jordan, Kerry E. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between app affordances and user abilities in second graders' interactions with mathematics virtual manipulative touchscreen tablet apps. The research questions focused on varying manifestations of affordance-ability relationships during children's interactions with mathematics virtual…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Bullock, Emma P.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Tucker, Stephen I.; Westenskow, Arla; Boyer-Thurgood, Jennifer; Gulkilik, Hilal; Watts, Christina; Jordan, Kerry – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this project was to examine young children's mathematics learning using virtual manipulative touch-screen apps. We interviewed over 100 young children as they interacted with mathematics apps on iPads and examined how these interactions supported mathematics learning and contributed to changes in efficiency. Children interacted with…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Bullock, Emma; Tucker, Stephen I.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Westenskow, Arla; Boyer-Thurgood, Jennifer; Maahs-Fladung, Cathy; Symanzik, Juergen; Mahamane, Salif; MacDonald, Beth; Jordan, Kerry – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2015
Part of a larger initiation mixed methods study (Greene, Caracelli, & Graham, 1989), this paper discusses the changes in young children's learning performance and efficiency (one element of the quantitative portion of the larger study) during clinical interviews in which each child interacted with a variety of virtual manipulative…
Descriptors: Young Children, Learning Processes, Efficiency, Numeracy
