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Exploring the Compelling Rationale to Include Programming in the K-12 Curriculum
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Aljameel, Iman H. – Online Submission, 2022
This study aims to conduct a literature review to explore the justification for including programming and coding in K-12 curricula. Additionally, it considers the value of teaching computational thinking and programming principles, pedagogical strategies, and the advantages and drawbacks of teaching programming to young students. Most studies…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Programming
The Effect of Block-Based Programming on the Computational Thinking Skills of Middle School Students
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Gunbatar, Mustafa Serkan; Turan, Baris – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of the study was to determine the effect of the programming instruction process carried out by using mBlock programming tool on the students' computational thinking skills. The study design was one group pretest-post-test experimental design. Study group was consisted of 82 students enrolled to a secondary school in Edremit district of Van…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Computer Science Education, Programming
Computational Thinking in Secondary Education: Where Does It Fit? A Systematic Literary Review
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Lockwood, James; Mooney, Aidan – Online Submission, 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
Abstraction in Action: K-5 Teachers' Uses of Levels of Abstraction, Particularly the Design Level, in Teaching Programming.
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Waite, Jane Lisa; Curzon, Paul; Marsh, William; Sentance, Sue; Hadwen-Bennett, Alex – Online Submission, 2018
Research indicates that understanding levels of abstraction (LOA) and being able to move between the levels is essential to programming success. For K-5 contexts we rename the LOA levels: problem, design, code and running the code. In our qualitative exploratory study, we interviewed five K-5 teachers on their uses of LOA, particularly the design…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Computer Science Education, Programming, Abstract Reasoning
Computational Thinking Patterns
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Ioannidou, Andri; Bennett, Vicki; Repenning, Alexander; Koh, Kyu Han; Basawapatna, Ashok – Online Submission, 2011
The iDREAMS project aims to reinvent Computer Science education in K-12 schools, by using game design and computational science for motivating and educating students through an approach we call Scalable Game Design, starting at the middle school level. In this paper we discuss the use of Computational Thinking Patterns as the basis for our…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Middle School Students
Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Volume 1.2
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Dixit, R. K. – Online Submission, 2009
Articles in this issue of "Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology" include: (1) Input Data Processing Techniques in Intrusion Detection Systems--Short Review (Suhair H. Amer and John A. Hamilton, Jr.); (2) Semantic Annotation of Stock Photography for CBIR Using MPEG-7 standards (R. Balasubramani and V. Kannan); (3) An Experimental Study…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Photography, Semantics, Computer Software