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Seçil Yücelyigit – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
The aim of the research is to understand in-service and pre-service preschool teachers' perceptions of coding after their lived experiences to develop suggestions regarding incorporating coding practices into early childhood education. The study employed a phenomenological design with a total of 28 pre-service and in-service preschool teachers (19…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Coding
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Kim, Yeolib; Jeong, Hye In – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2023
The recent push to introduce coding in early childhood education has been the subject of heated debate. A lack of theoretical and empirical research devoted to understanding coding education acceptance provided the motivation for this article. As a way to engage in the debate, this article investigated kindergarten teachers' acceptance of coding…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Liao, Shu-Min – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2023
SCRATCH, developed by the Media Lab at MIT, is a kid-friendly visual programming language, designed to introduce programming to children and teens in a "more thinkable, more meaningful, and more social" way. Although it was initially intended for K-12 students, educators have used it for higher education as well, and found it…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Coding, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
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Karakaya Cirit, Didem – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
This paper analyzed Scratch projects developed by undergraduate students. The sample consisted of 22 child development students (18 women and four men) in the 2018-2019 academic year. The study adopted an action research design within the scope of a course titled "Teaching Science and Mathematics in Preschool Education." The research was…
Descriptors: Coding, Preschool Education, Computer Science Education, Computer Software