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Adriana Medina-Vidal; José Carlos Vázquez-Parra; Marco Cruz-Sandoval; Arantza Echaniz-Barrondo – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This article endeavors to detail the outcomes of an exploratory investigation into the perceived attainment levels of complex thinking competencies among business students at a technological university in western Mexico. It seeks to examine and contrast the students' self-assessed development of this critical competency, along with its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
Ioannis Vourletsis – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
Computational thinking (CT) skills have become increasingly important in modern education, as they equip students with critical problem-solving skills applicable across various domains. Given the growing emphasis on digital literacy, it is essential to investigate grade- and gender-level differences in CT skills among students to support targeted…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions, Elementary School Students, Scores
Lihui Sun; Junjie Liu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Computational Thinking (CT) has evolved as an essential competency for K-12 students, and programming practices are recognized as the key way to facilitate CT development. However, most studies of CT development in middle graders have focused on visual programming, lacking evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of Python programming. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Middle School Students
Gamze Akkaya – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
This study aimed to comprehensively examine the relationship between science motivation and the 21st-century skill levels of secondary school students. The study was conducted according to the quantitative methodology using the correlational survey method. The convenience sampling approach was adopted in the study. The study group was analyzed in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Student Motivation, 21st Century Skills
Deniz Kaya; Ayten Öykü Yasar; Ibrahim Çetin; Tamer Kutluca – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study aimed to determine the strength of the relationship between 21st-century skills and the computational thinking skill levels of prospective teachers, as well as the affect of 21st-century skills on computational thinking. This study adopted a correlational design as part of a quantitative methodology. The study sample consists of 300…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Computation, Thinking Skills, Preservice Teachers
Demir-Kaymak, Zeliha; Duman, Ibrahim; Randler, Christoph; Horzum, Mehmet Baris – Informatics in Education, 2022
Problem-solving and critical thinking are associated with 21st century skills and have gained popularity as computational thinking skills in recent decades. Having such skills has become a must for all ages/grade levels. This study was conducted to examine the effects of grade level, gender, chronotype, and time on computational thinking skills.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Individual Differences, Sleep, Time
Ma, Jingsi; Zhang, Yi; Zhu, Zhifang; Zhao, Sunan; Wang, Qiyun – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) education has drawn increasing attention from educators and researchers. This study conducted a meta-analysis of 27 empirical studies to examine the effectiveness of game-based learning (GBL) for fostering students' CT. The effects of various factors on the learning process for acquiring CT were also examined. The…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computation, Thinking Skills, Instructional Effectiveness
Zübeyde Er – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
This study aimed to determine the mathematical thinking levels of gifted and non-gifted students and to compare them according to some variables. In this study, screening model was used from quantitative research methods. The study group of the study consists of 194 gifted students and 168 non-gifted students studying in grades 5-8 in a province…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Academically Gifted, Grade 5
Boonsathirakul, Jittinun; Kerdsomboon, Chakree – Higher Education Studies, 2021
This research study aims to investigate university student's critical thinking disposition (CTD). The sample includes 633 undergraduate students at different levels from Kasetsart University, Thailand. The analysis was based on convenience random sampling. The CTD instrument comprises 24 Likert scale. The subscales consisted of seven crucial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students
Cadena-Nogales, Pedro D.; Solaz-Portolés, Joan J.; Echegoyen-Sanz, Yolanda; Sanjosé-López, Vicente – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
One of the main objectives of scientific literacy is the development of rational skills and critical thinking in citizens. This is a central goal for teachers. However, beliefs that lack rational foundation and supporting evidence, named "epistemically unwarranted beliefs" (EUB), spread rapidly among the population. If teachers had some…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Cognitive Style, Instructional Program Divisions
Qing Guo; Huan Li; Sha Zhu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Previous research has not adequately explored students' behavioral processes when addressing computational thinking (CT) problems of varying difficulty, limiting insights into students' detailed CT development characteristics. This study seeks to fill this gap by employing gamified CT items across multiple difficulty levels to calculate…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Student Behavior, Difficulty Level
Keles, Taliha – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Creativity and creative problem-solving are seen as the most important components of education today. This situation reveals the need to identify students' creative problem-solving characteristics. This study, it was aimed to examine the creative problem-solving characteristics of gifted and non-gifted students in terms of giftedness diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creativity, Academically Gifted, Gender Differences
Er, Zübeyde; Dinç Artut, Perihan; Bal, Ayten Pinar – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
The aim of this research is to develop a reliable and valid scale to determine the mathematical thinking skills of gifted students. In addition, with the developed scale, thinking skills of gifted students was examined in terms of various variables. In this context, the research was carried out on two different study groups. The first stage of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Rating Scales, Test Construction, Construct Validity
Muradoglu, Bahar; Yigit, Nevzat; Güven, Ebru Mazlum – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
As innovation has gained importance worldwide, educating students as individuals with innovative qualities has become imperative. Therefore, identifying students' perceptions of innovativeness in science lessons has become an issue of concern. The aim of this study was to determine secondary school students' perceptions of innovativeness. The…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Innovation, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Al-Shenikat, Feryal Abdel-Hadi – Educational Research and Reviews, 2022
The present study aimed to find out the level of critical thinking skills of a Jordanian sample of blind students and its relationship with some variables, namely the gender and class level variable. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher developed the California Critical Thinking Scale in line with the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blindness, Students with Disabilities, Critical Thinking