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Katrina Laguarda; Linda Shear; Hui Yang; Xavier Fields; Satabdi Basu – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2022
In company with other leading jurisdictions around the world, Hong Kong is taking important steps to mainstream computational thinking education (CTE) into the primary grades curriculum. At the vanguard of this movement in Hong Kong, CoolThink@JC is a 3-year course sequence for upper primary students designed to develop computational thinking…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Computer Science Education, 21st Century Skills, Elementary School Students
Katrina Laguarda; Haiwen Wang; Linda Shear – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2024
By the end of the 2021-22 school year, CoolThink@JC had scaled successfully to 131 Hong Kong primary schools. This topical report explores the relationship between CoolThink implementation and student learning during the 2021-22 school year in schools in their first or second year of adopting CoolThink@JC. The report draws on data collected for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Achievement Gains, Problem Solving
Katrina Laguarda; Linda Shear; Satabdi Basu; Ela Joshi; Patrik Lundh; Hui Yang – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
Launched in 2016 and led by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (The Trust), CoolThink@JC is scaling the study of computational thinking to primary 4-6 students across the territory. By early 2023, the CoolThink network had enrolled 204 schools in six cohorts, achieving a critical mass of schools that will have adopted the 14-hour curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills