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Lorien Cafarella; Lucas Vasconcelos – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Middle school students often enter Computer Science (CS) classes without previous CS or Computational Thinking (CT) instruction. This study evaluated how Code.org's block-based programming curriculum affects middle school students' CT skills and attitudes toward CT and CS. Sixteen students participated in the study. This was a mixed methods action…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
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Muhammed Murat Gümüs; Volkan Kukul; Özgen Korkmaz – Informatics in Education, 2024
This study aims to explain the relationships between secondary school students' digital literacy, computer programming self-efficacy and computational thinking self-efficacy. The study group consists of 204 secondary school students. A relational survey model was used in the research method and three different data collection tools were used to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Middle School Students, Thinking Skills, Digital Literacy
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Nursel Ugur; Ünal Çakiroglu – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
Facilitating Computer Science Unplugged (CS-unplugged) activities with reflective thinking activities lead students to in-depth reviews of their decisions and think of ways to solve the CS-unplugged problems. This study aims to evaluate the instruction enriched with reflective thinking activities to develop computational thinking skills. The study…
Descriptors: Reflection, Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Computation
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Gerard Dummer; Elwin Savelsbergh; Paul Drijvers – Informatics in Education, 2025
Programmed control systems are ubiquitous in the present-day world. In current educational practice, however, these systems are hardly being addressed, and little is known about children's spontaneous understandings about such systems. Therefore, we explored pupils' understandings prior to instruction in three concrete settings: a car park, an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6, Computer Science Education
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Mumcu, Filiz; Kidiman, Esra; Özdinç, Fatih – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
Integrating computational thinking (CT) into various disciplines via computer science (CS) methods such as unplugged, block-based, text-based, and physical programming is a trending topic in educational sciences. This study presents a perspective on implementing an unplugged computer science activity to integrate CT into mathematics education.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Education, Learning Activities
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Cyril Brom; Anna Drobná; Anna Yaghobová; Daniel Št’astný; Katerina Zábrodská; Marek Urban – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Objectives: Limited research exists on how new computer science (CS) teachers understand fundamental Internet principles. This knowledge gap hinders the development of effective upskilling courses, especially as new CS curricula are being introduced worldwide. This study investigates new CS teachers' conceptions of fundamental Internet principles,…
Descriptors: Internet, Knowledge Level, Computer Science Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Meina Zhu; Cheng Wang – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2023
Given the increasing needs of employees with computational skills, understanding the core competencies of K-12 computer science (CS) education is vital. This phenomenological research aims to identify critical factors of CS education in K-12 schools from the perspectives and visions of CS faculties in higher education and teachers in K-12 schools.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Universities
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Meghan L. McSherry; Becca A. Leininger; Maria L. Johnson; AnnMarie P. Thomas; Susan Outlaw; Douglas C. Orzolek – Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, 2024
The purpose of this research project was to design, deliver, and informally assess the content and methodology of an introductory online course for the educators of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students (N=20) that focused on the block-based coding language, Scratch. Prior work by The Playful Learning Lab examined various STEM resources and their…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Online Courses, Summer Programs
Amelia Auchstetter; Eben Witherspoon; Oluchi Ozuzu; Jonathan Margolin; Lawrence B. Friedman – American Institutes for Research, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation and impact of the Pack program. The Pack was developed by the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) and includes a digital game and set of curricular and professional development resources that aim to support computational thinking teaching and learning in middle school science and computer…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Educational Games, Program Implementation
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Zhong, Baichang; Xia, Liying; Su, Siyu – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
One of the aspects of programming that novices often struggle with is the understanding of abstract concepts, such as variables, loops, expressions, and especially Boolean operations. This paper aims to explore the effects of programming tools with different degrees of embodiment on learning Boolean operations in elementary school. To this end, 67…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Programming, Novices, Elementary Education
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Erümit, Ali Kürsat; Sahin, Güven – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2020
This study is an investigation of the effects of plugged and unplugged activities in a programming course using the Programming in Seven Steps (PSS) model on pupils' satisfaction and activity type preferences. A case study method was used in the classroom was the case. Data included students' diary, their responses on semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Programming, Computer Science Education
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Thomas, Kevin M.; Ivy, Jessica; Cook, Kristin; Kelley, Robert R. – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a GenCyber camp curriculum on teachers' technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK). The camp was designed to engage participants in developing the knowledge and skills to incorporate GenCyber Cybersecurity First Principles and GenCyber Cybersecurity Concepts (GenCyber, 2019) into…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Information Security, Computer Security
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Kwon, Kyungbin; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne T.; Brush, Thomas A.; Jeon, Minji; Yan, Ge – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
This study investigated how a computer science (CS) problem-based curriculum impacted elementary students' CS learning and attitudes. Four sixth-grade teachers and 200 of their students participated in the study. Researchers developed a CS curriculum in collaboration with the teachers, which consisted of two main units: (1) an introduction to…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Puckett, Cassidy – Harvard Educational Review, 2019
This article investigates the extent to which teens are ready to take advantage of the Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative promoted in 2016 by the Obama administration. Using new survey data from a socioeconomically stratified random sample of eighth graders in regular neighborhood schools in Chicago, author Cassidy Puckett looks at…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Learning Readiness, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Bubica, Nikolina; Boljat, Ivica – Informatics in Education, 2022
The new Croatian Informatics curriculum, which introduces computational thinking concepts into learning outcomes has been put into practice. A computational thinking assessment model reflecting the learning outcomes of the Croatian curriculum was created using an evidence-centered design approach. The possibility of assessing the computational…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Information Science Education, Computer Science Education
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