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Wei Li; Cheng-Ye Liu; Judy C. R. Tseng – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Collaborative programming helps improve students' computational thinking and increases their confidence in solving programming problems. However, the effect of collaborative learning is not ideal because it is difficult for students to mobilize metacognition to regulate learning spontaneously. To guide students to effectively regulate the learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Metacognition, Academic Achievement
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Robbert Smit; Rahel Schmid; Nicolas Robin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Secondary school students (N = 269) participated in a daylong visual programming course held in a stimulating environment for start-up enterprises. The tasks were application-oriented and partly creative. For example, a wearable device with light-emitting diodes, (ie, LEDs) could be applied to a T-shirt and used for optical messages. Our research…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Gender Differences, Prediction, Student Attitudes
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Fields, Deborah A.; Kafai, Yasmin B.; Morales-Navarro, Luis; Walker, Justice T. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Much attention in constructionism has focused on designing tools and activities that support learners in designing fully finished and functional applications and artefacts to be shared with others. But helping students learn to debug their applications often takes on a surprisingly more instructionist stance by giving them checklists, teaching…
Descriptors: High School Students, Design, Programming, Textiles Instruction
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Xin Gong; Weiqi Xu; Shufan Yu; Jingjing Ma; Ailing Qiao – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Tangible programming tools have become a mainstream teaching aid in gamification programming learning (GPL) due to their interactivity and ability to enhance novice learners' computational thinking and spatial reasoning skills. However, comparing the relative efficacy of different programming tools that simultaneously support these skills was not…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Gamification
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Polat, Elif; Hopcan, Sinan; Kucuk, Sevda; Sisman, Burak – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Performance in and perceptions of computational thinking (CT) are considered vital dimensions for comprehensively assessing CT skills of students. In this study, secondary school students' CT performance and their perceptions were examined in terms of certain variables including gender, grade level, achievement and self-efficacy.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Gender Differences
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Chase, Catherine C.; Malkiewich, Laura J.; Lee, Alison; Slater, Stefan; Choi, Ahram; Xing, Chenmu – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
It is difficult to motivate learners to seek out and persist at challenging learning tasks where failure is likely. However, in game environments, people seem highly motivated to engage with challenges and respond productively to failure. Many typical game features purportedly enhance intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy, which should improve…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Learning Processes, Programming
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Dohn, Niels Bonderup – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The ability to code computer programs is considered an important part of literacy in today's society. This paper reports from a case study in two sixth-grade classes where Scratch coding was part of six mathematics lessons. The aim of the study was to investigate how Scratch coding affected students' interest development in coding and in…
Descriptors: Coding, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Interests
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Lau, Wilfred W. F.; Yuen, Allan H. K. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
Computer programming has been taught in secondary schools for more than two decades. However, little is known about how students learn to program. From the curriculum implementation perspectives, learning style helps address the issue of learner differences, resulting in a shift from a teacher-centred approach to a learner-focused approach. This…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Instructional Effectiveness, Gender Differences, Academic Ability