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Stamatios, Papadakis – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Computational Thinking (CT) and the understanding of how programs are being executed is internationally acknowledging as a necessity for today's students and citizens of tomorrow. Despite the multifaceted nature of CT, the introduction of CT and associate concepts such as coding is regarded as developmental acceptable for preschool and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming
Metin, Sermin; Basaran, Mehmet; Kalyenci, Damla – Pedagogical Research, 2023
The purpose of this research is to examine the coding skills of five-year-old children in terms of some variables. The research sample comprises 160 children aged five years studying in kindergarten affiliated with the Ministry of National Education in Gaziantep city center in the 2021-2022 academic year. As a data collection tool in the research,…
Descriptors: Programming, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Çakiroglu, Ünal; Mumcu, Süheda; Atabay, Melek; Aydin, Merve – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2022
This study aims to explore the influences of the CS-unplugged activities in developing problem solving skills of preschool children. The participants were 11 children (4-5 aged) enrolled in a public preschool and Code.org activities were used as an instructional package. Activity evaluation form and interviews were used to understand children's…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Preschool Children, Computer Science Education, Programming
Valerie Critten; Hannah Hagon; Melike Aslan Unlu – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
In light of current developments, there is an increasing effort to integrate computing-oriented activities into the education of children as young as two years old. Although the computing strand is not officially addressed in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (DfES, 2024), a small number of early years teachers in England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Computation, Problem Solving
Shumway, Jessica F.; Welch, Lise E.; Kozlowski, Joseph S.; Clarke-Midura, Jody; Lee, Victor R. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore how kindergarten students (aged 5-6 years) engaged with mathematics as they learned programming with robot coding toys. We video-recorded 16 teaching sessions of kindergarten students' (N = 36) mathematical and programming activities. Students worked in small groups (4-5 students) with robot coding toys on…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Mathematics Education, Knowledge Level
Pérez-Marín, Diana; Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Pizarro, Celeste – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Significant interest in teaching children to code since Preschool Education has arisen in recent years. This paper focuses on the benefits of preschoolers learning to code at such short age. The research questions are whether by coding they can improve skills such as sequencing and plotting a route? Which factors influence the learning? And, to…
Descriptors: Programming, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Thinking Skills
Küçükkara, Muhammed Fatih; Aksüt, Pelin – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2021
This study aimed to introduce unplugged algorithm activities developed for preschool children and to examine their implementation process. The activities used in the study were designed to support preschool children to develop and apply different solutions to problem situations that require algorithmic thinking and to learn basic algorithm…
Descriptors: Coding, Programming, Preschool Education, Computer Science Education
Jung, Sung Eun; Lee, Kyunghwa – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This qualitative case study explores a 6-year-old boy's dialogic appropriation of programmable robots. The study was conducted in two robotics education programs for children aged four to seven. Drawing on Bakhtin's (1981) notion of appropriation, we found that the focal child actively engaged with the programmable robots by (1) transforming the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Robotics, Computer Science Education, Preschool Children
Çiftci, Serdar; Bildiren, Ahmet – Computer Science Education, 2020
Background and Context: There are studies which indicate that computer programming supports high-level abilities for everyone such as creative thinking, questioning, problem solving and critical thinking which are considered within the scope of 21st-century abilities. Objective: The current experimental study was carried out to put forth the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Coding, Cognitive Ability, Problem Solving