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Jacqueline Nijenhuis-Voogt; Durdane Bayram; Paulien C. Meijer; Erik Barendsen – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
A context-based approach to education aims to improve students' meaningful learning and uses authentic situations in which scientific concepts are applied. The use of contexts may contribute to the learning of abstract concepts such as algorithms. The selection of appropriate contexts, however, is challenging for teachers. It is therefore…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Computer Science Education, Secondary School Science, Algorithms
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Lockwood, James; Mooney, Aidan – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2018
Computational Thinking has been described as an essential skill which everyone should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert (Papert, 1980) is credited as concretising Computational Thinking in 1980 but Jeanette Wing (Wing, 2006) popularised the term in 2006 and brought it to the international community's attention.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Secondary Education