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Scott H. Moss – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This case study focuses on the implementation and analysis of critical algorithmic literacy (CAL) lessons in two grade 3/4 combination classes. The study involves one elementary school teacher and 36 students from a K-6 school in Southern California. By analyzing various data sources, I identified trends that could be helpful for future…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary School Students, Computer Science Education, Critical Literacy
David E. Platt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative, phenomenological research study explores the best practices that secondary Grades 6-12 educators employ when using microcontrollers in the classroom. Governmental and private organizations have investigated and promoted the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and computer science in education (Code…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming
Jennifer Tsan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Collaborative learning has long been investigated for its benefits to learners. Prior research indicates that collaboration may help students develop more sophisticated arguments and learn more effectively. While a great deal of research has been completed on how elementary students collaborate, there has been little research on how they…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students, Computer Science Education, Problem Solving
Meize Guo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The consistent prevalence of computer science in our society and the urgent need for STEM professionals in the U.S. raised the need for computer science education at the K-8 level. Researchers have examined the challenges, possible approaches, and contents of teaching computer science. However, there has been limited research on teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Stelck, Luella Mae – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This three-article dissertation presents a perspective of persistence in STEAM learning at the elementary level within the context of a third through fifth-grade elementary school in Northern Idaho. Students at this elementary school were offered extra-curricular opportunities to persist in STEAM learning and while participating in a MakerSpace…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Children
Munn, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This research study explored robotics as the catalyst for computational thinking (CT) by sixth-grade students as they are engaged in a science lesson. The interactions, understandings, and applications are discussed, along with the participants' connections and implementations of CT concepts (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 6, Units of Study, Science Instruction
Chen, Guanhua – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is part of a larger design study that iteratively improves a robotics programming curriculum as well as a computational thinking (CT) instrument. Its focus was majorly on CT assessment and particularly on an online CT instrument with logging functionality that can store a student's problem-solving process by recording interactions…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Test Construction, Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Her Many Horses, Ian – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The world, and especially our own country, is in dire need of a larger and more diverse population of computer scientists. While many organizations have approached this problem of too few computer scientists in various ways, a promising, and I believe necessary, path is to expose elementary students to authentic practices of the discipline.…
Descriptors: After School Education, Computer Science Education, Elementary School Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Basawapatna, Ashok Ram – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Computational thinking aims to outline fundamental skills from computer science that everyone should learn. As currently defined, with help from the National Science Foundation (NSF), these skills include problem formulation, logically organizing data, automating solutions through algorithmic thinking, and representing data through abstraction.…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking