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Qing Yu; Kun Yu; Baomin Li – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Computer programming is regarded as an important skill for the future. However, many K-12 students face challenges and difficulties in learning traditional text-based programming. Block-based visual programming (BVP) can reduce the difficulty of learning programming and is seen as a potential programming education tool. Nevertheless, the effects…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Visual Aids, Outcomes of Education
Thompson, JaCoya; Arastoopour Irgens, Golnaz – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
Data science is a highly interdisciplinary field that comprises various principles, methodologies, and guidelines for the analysis of data. The creation of appropriate curricula that use computational tools and teaching activities is necessary for building skills and knowledge in data science. However, much of the literature about data science…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Middle School Students, Statistics Education, Student Centered Learning
I-Ying Hsu; Fu-Hsing Tsai – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
This study developed a physical computing game-design project that incorporates block-based programming, physical computing, and computer game design for Taiwan's high school technology education curriculum to strengthen students' computational thinking. The project asked students to develop a somatosensory computer game using a block-based…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Design, Programming Languages, Student Attitudes
Podworny, Susanne; Hüsing, Sven; Schulte, Carsten – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
Data science surrounds us in contexts as diverse as climate change, air pollution, route-finding, genomics, market manipulation, and movie recommendations. To open the "data-science-black-box" for lower secondary school students, we developed a data science teaching unit focusing on the analysis of environmental data, which we embedded…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Programming, Programming Languages, Data Analysis
Jose Antonio Lecea Yanguas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents the first Systemic Functional Linguistics-based analysis of the teaching/learning of computational thinking through computer programming and comprehensive analysis of discourse of a whole computer programming course at any educational level. The current educational research raises questions about the nature of authentic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Arboledas-Brihuega, David – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2019
It is evident that the society in which we live will demand more and more qualified and specialized positions in the different branches of engineering. Now we are in a highly digitized world in which information is continuously transmitted through data communication networks with the expectation of security and confidentiality. Students who are in…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Curriculum Implementation, Active Learning, Student Projects
Fronza, Ilenia; Corral, Luis; Pahl, Claus – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: This work aims to introduce and evaluate an instructional strategy that aids end-users with developing their software products during intensive project-based events. Background: End-users produce software in the labor market, and one of the challenges for End-User Software Engineering (EUSE) is the need to create functional software…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Student Projects
Thomson, Ian – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2017
Snowflakes falling in Brisbane, Australia would likely make news headlines during any season of a given year, even during winter. Year 8 students at Ormiston College which is located in Brisbane, have made their own snowflakes--of a kind. Using the programming language Scratch, all Year 8 Mathematics students wrote code to construct Swedish…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Programming Languages, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students
Erümit, Ali Kürsat; Öngöz, Sakine; Aksoy, Dilara Arzugül – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The aim of this study was to design, implement and evaluate the programming process for gifted students and offer suggestions to teachers and researchers. For this purpose, 5 gifted students were provided programming activities for ten weeks. Scratch was used in the programming training process. The qualitative data was collected by observation,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Computer Science Education, Student Interests, Student Needs