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Remsh Nasser Alqahtani; Ahmad Zaid Almassaad – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The aim of research is to reveal the effect of a training program based on the TAWOCK model for teaching computational thinking skills on teaching self-efficacy among computer teachers. It used the quasi-experimental approach, with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. An electronic training program based on the TAWOCK model was…
Descriptors: Models, Teaching Methods, Computation, Thinking Skills
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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
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Moon, Hyunchang; Cheon, Jongphil; Kwon, Kyungbin – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2022
To help novice learners overcome the obstacles of learning computational thinking (CT) through programming, it is vital to identify difficult CT components. This study aimed to determine the computational concepts and practices that learners may have difficulties acquiring and discuss how programming instructions should be designed to facilitate…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming
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Fan Xu; Ana-Paula Correia – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2024
As online learning has become an inevitable trend in the post-peak era of the COVID-19 pandemic, distributed pair programming (DPP) is gaining momentum in both education and industry. DDP serves as a collaborative programming approach and also benefits the development of computational thinking, a fundamental skill in today's world. This study…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities
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Eloy, Adelmo; Achutti, Camila F.; Fernandez, Cassia; Lopes, Roseli de Deus – Informatics in Education, 2022
Integrating computational thinking into K-12 Education has been a widely explored topic in recent years. Particularly, effective assessment of computational thinking can support the understanding of how learners develop computational concepts and practices. Aiming to help advance research on this topic, we propose a data-driven approach to assess…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Learning Processes, Evaluation Methods
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Pewkam, Wichaya; Chamrat, Suthida – Informatics in Education, 2022
Computing science which focuses on computational thinking, has been a compulsory subject in the Thai science curriculum since 2018. This study is an initial program to explore how and to what extend computing science that focused on STEM education learning approach can develop pre-service teachers' computational thinking. The online STEM-based…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, STEM Education, Learning Activities
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Jamie Colwell; Amy Hutchison; Kristie Gutierrez; Jeff Offutt; Anya Evmenova – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background & Context: This research focused on an online professional development (PD), the Inclusive Computer Science Model of PD, to support integrating computer science and computational thinking for all learners into K-5 literacy instruction. Objective: This research was conducted to understand elementary teachers' perceptions of the PD.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
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Xing, Wanli – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Previous research has invested much effort in understanding how programming can contribute to the development of young learners' computational thinking (CT) in traditional K-12 classroom settings. Relatively few studies have examined programming for CT in informal online communities, especially for large scale quantitative research. With the…
Descriptors: Programming, Thinking Skills, Computation, Programming Languages
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Fields, Deborah; Lui, Debora; Kafai, Yasmin; Jayathirtha, Gayithri; Walker, Justice; Shaw, Mia – Computer Science Education, 2021
Background and Context: While assessment of computational thinking concepts, practices, and perspectives is at the forefront of K-12 CS education, supporting student "communication about computation" has received relatively little attention. Objective: To examine the usability of process-based portfolios for capturing students'…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Student Projects
Kyrilov, Angelo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Information technology is now ubiquitous in higher education institutions worldwide. More than 85% of American universities use e-learning systems to supplement traditional classroom activities. An obvious benefit of these online tools is their ability to automatically grade exercises submitted by students and provide immediate feedback. Most of…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Educational Quality, Feedback (Response), Computer Assisted Testing
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Tsai, Chia-Wen; Shen, Pei-Di; Tsai, Meng-Chuan; Chen, Wen-Yu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Much application software education in Taiwan can hardly be regarded as practical. The researchers in this study provided a flexible means of ubiquitous learning (u-learning) with a mobile app for students to access the learning material. In addition, the authors also adopted computational thinking (CT) to help students develop practical computing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Web Based Instruction, Computation
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Capacho, Jose – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
The main objective of this paper is to show a set of new methodologies applied in the teaching of Computer Science using ICT. The methodologies are framed in the conceptual basis of the following sciences: Psychology, Education and Computer Science. The theoretical framework of the research is supported by Behavioral Theory, Gestalt Theory.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Games
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries