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Mehmet Küçük; Tarik Talan; Muhammet Demirbilek – Informatics in Education, 2024
This study investigated the effects of 3D model building activities with block codes on students' spatial thinking and computational thinking skills. The study group consists of 5th grade students in a secondary school in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. For the study, a pretestposttest control group was utilized within the experimental…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Programming
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Price, Colin B.; Price-Mohr, Ruth – Education 3-13, 2023
This study investigates computer programming ('coding') activities of Primary School Children; we ask if there is evidence of gender differences in their coding activities. The research took place in an English urban school with around 180 children on role, mostly from a middle-class social background. The study involved a class of 17 boys and 15…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Elementary School Students, Programming, Urban Schools
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Wang, Jiahui – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2021
With the advancement in technology and the emphasis on computer science education, there has been a strong push for more widespread programming instruction at K-12 and higher education levels. Existing research has mostly focused on students at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Not much research has involved students at the elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Programming, Student Attitudes, Grade 4
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Ruth Beatty; Colinda Clyne; Leslie-Anne Muma; Jennifer Parkinson; Bonnie Sears – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2024
In this study, a research team made up of Métis artists and knowledge keepers, Anishinaabe and non-Indigenous educators, and a non-Indigenous university mathematics education researcher co-designed and delivered an Indigenous cultural mathematical inquiry in a Grade 5 classroom. We explored the connections between loom bead designs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Elementary School Curriculum