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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
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Irem Nur Çelik; Kati Bati – Informatics in Education, 2025
In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of cooperative learning on the computational thinking skills and academic performances of middle school students in the computational problem-solving approach. We used the pretest-posttest control group design of the quasiexperimental method. In the research, computational problem-solving…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Ibrahim Cetin; Tarik Otu – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2023
The purpose of the current study was to explore the effect of modality (constructionist mBlock, Scratch, and Python interventions) on six-grade students' computational thinking, programming attitude, and achievement. The pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design was used to explore the research questions. The study group consisted of 105…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Student Attitudes, Programming
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Ng, Oi-Lam; Leung, Allen; Ye, Huiyan – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Programming is an interdisciplinary practice with applications in both mathematics and computer science. Mathematics concerns rigor, abstraction, and generalization. Computer science predominantly concerns efficiency, concreteness, and physicality. This makes programming a medium for problem solving that mediates between mathematics and computer…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Programming Languages
Jeff Bender – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At an unrivaled and enduring pace, computing has transformed the world, resulting in demand for a universal fourth foundation beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic: computational thinking (CT). Despite increasingly widespread acceptance of CT as a crucial competency for all, transforming education systems accordingly has proven complex. The…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Game Based Learning, Evaluation Methods, Computation
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Ma, Hongliang; Zhao, Mei; Wang, Huixin; Wan, Xinqi; Cavanaugh, Terence W.; Liu, Ji – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Computational thinking (CT) is a fundamental skill and an analytical ability that children in the twenty-first century should develop. Students should begin to work with algorithmic problem-solving and computational methods in K-12. Drawing on a conceptual framework (IGGIA) that combines CT and problem-solving, this study designed and implemented…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
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Yildiz Durak, Hatice – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2020
The aim of this research is to determine the effects of Scratch and Alice tools and programming teaching practices on student engagement, reflective thinking and problem-solving skills and computational thinking (CT) comparatively. A quasi-experimental design was used in the research and patterns with pretest-posttest control group were chosen for…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Computer Science Education, Programming, Programming Languages
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Wang, Jianlan; Zhang, Yuanlin; Jones, Arthur; Eckel, Rory; Hawkins, Joshua; Musslewhite, Darrel – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2022
Despite the importance of computer science education and computational thinking, there have been limited examples of computer science education at K-12 classrooms that authentically represents the work of computer scientists, especially programming. One reason is the lack of a measurable definition of computational thinking and a programming…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming, Thinking Skills
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Kwon, Kyungbin; Cheon, Jongpil – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2019
Although teachers need to assess computational thinking (CT) for computer science education in K-12, it is not easy for them to evaluate students' programs based on the perspective. The purpose of this study was to investigate students' CT skills reflected in their Scratch programs. The context of the study was a middle school coding club where…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Coding
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Erümit, Ali Kürsat – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Purpose of this study is determined effects of different teaching approaches on programming skills. Therefore, the effect of three different types of activities prepared with Scratch on 423 sixth grade students' attitudes towards computer technologies, algorithmic thinking skills and reflective thinking skills on problem solving were investigated.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Programming, Programming Languages
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Petrie, Christopher – Computer Science Education, 2022
Background and Context: Computational Thinking (CT) has been recently integrated into new and revised Digital Technologies content (DTC) in the Technology learning area of the New Zealand School Curriculum. Objective: To aid this change, this research examined how CT supports learning outcomes in both music and programming with the Sonic Pi…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Outcomes of Education, Computer Science Education, Programming
Jose Antonio Lecea Yanguas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents the first Systemic Functional Linguistics-based analysis of the teaching/learning of computational thinking through computer programming and comprehensive analysis of discourse of a whole computer programming course at any educational level. The current educational research raises questions about the nature of authentic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Bubica, Nikolina; Boljat, Ivica – Informatics in Education, 2022
The new Croatian Informatics curriculum, which introduces computational thinking concepts into learning outcomes has been put into practice. A computational thinking assessment model reflecting the learning outcomes of the Croatian curriculum was created using an evidence-centered design approach. The possibility of assessing the computational…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Information Science Education, Computer Science Education
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Altin, Rukiye; Tokel, Tugba; Delialioglu, Omer – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2021
The focus on Computer Science Education at the K-12 level has been increasingly highlighted due to today's need for a populace with computational thinking skills, in addition to the expansion of careers related to computing and computer science. Programming helps facilitate students' examination of the nature of a problem and helps students to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Interdisciplinary Approach, Computer Science Education
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Yildiz, Serife Nur; Ates-Cobanoglu, Alev; Kisla, Tarik – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2020
This paper reports the development process of a scale for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teachers' acceptance and use of Scratch for teaching programming. For early beginners of programming, Scratch is the most popular block-based software for facilitating programming teaching (Zhang and Nouri, 2019) worldwide. Also, in Turkey,…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Technology Integration
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