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João Piedade; Nuno Dorotea – Informatics in Education, 2023
Computational Thinking (CT) has emerged in recent years as a thematic trend in education in many countries and several initiatives have been developed for its inclusion in school curricula. There are many pedagogical strategies to promote the development of elementary school students' CT skills and knowledge. Unplugged learning tasks, block-based…
Descriptors: Programming, Programming Languages, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Wei-Ying Li; Tzu-Chuen Lu – Informatics in Education, 2024
This study investigates the effect of programming courses on the computational thinking (CT) skills of elementary school students and the learning effectiveness of students from different backgrounds who are studying programming. We designed a OwlSpace programming course into an elementary school curriculum. Students in fourth and fifth grades…
Descriptors: Programming, Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students
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Jiang, Shan; Wong, Gary K. W. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Over the past decade, the call to foster computational thinking (CT) in every child has received considerable attention. However, there is little understanding of whether children are developmentally ready to think computationally and what specific CT concepts and skills can be developed at various ages. This study explored the developmental and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Thinking Skills, Computation
Djambong, Takam; Freiman, Viktor – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
While today's schools in several countries, like Canada, are about to bring back programming to their curricula, a new conceptual angle, namely one of computational thinking, draws attention of researchers. In order to understand the articulation between computational thinking tasks in one side, student's targeted skills, and the types of problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Programming, Computation