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Stella Xin Yin; Dion Hoe-Lian Goh; Choon Lang Quek; Zhengyuan Liu – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
With the growing popularity of computational thinking (CT) classes in K-12 schools, it is important to investigate public perceptions of these initiatives. Analyzing public discussions and opinions provides valuable insights that can inform future educational policies and reforms. In this paper, we collected questions and answers related to CT…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Opinion
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Paul Christian Dawkins; Kyeong Hah Roh – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
This article offers the construct "unitizing predicates" to name mental actions important for students' reasoning about logic. To unitize a predicate is to conceptualize (possibly complex or multipart) conditions as a single property that every example has or does not have, thereby partitioning a universal set into examples and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Mathematical Logic, Validity
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Chung-Yuan Hsu; Meng-Jung Tsai – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
This research aimed to investigate the structural relationships among teachers' computational thinking (CT), design thinking (DT), robotics teaching beliefs, and robotics pedagogical content knowledge (RPCK). A total of 98 in-service and pre-service teachers who participated in a robotics teaching professional development workshop served as the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computer Science Education, Factor Analysis, Technological Literacy
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Qian, Yingxiao; Choi, Ikseon – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Echoing the increasing emphasis on STEM literacy, computational thinking has become a national priority in K-12 schools. Scholars have acknowledged abstraction as the keystone of computational thinking. To foster K-12 students' computational thinking and STEM literacy, students' ability to think abstractly should be enhanced. However, the existing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning
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Karen Woo; Garry Falloon – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Coding and computational thinking are being hailed as the new literacy for the twenty-first century, and have become increasingly common in schools world-wide. At the same time, the sector is facing a global shortage of technology teachers, and technology lessons are frequently being delivered by non-specialist teachers. Therefore, some have…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Thinking Skills, 21st Century Skills, Elementary School Students
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Justin Gambrell; Eric Brewe – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Computational thinking in physics has many different forms, definitions, and implementations depending on the level of physics or the institution it is presented in. To better integrate computational thinking in introductory physics, we need to understand what physicists find important about computational thinking in introductory physics. We…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
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Searle, Kristin A.; Tofel-Grehl, Colby; Fischback, Liam; Hansen, Tyler – Computer Science Education, 2023
Background and Context: There is a need for teachers who are prepared to teach integrated CS/CT throughout the K-12 curriculum. Drawing on three vignettes of teacher instructional practice, we build on a growing body of literature around how teachers integrate CS/CT into their classrooms after attending CS/CT focused professional development.…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Teaching Styles, Computer Science Education
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Lockwood, James; Mooney, Aidan – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2018
Computational Thinking has been described as an essential skill which everyone should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert (Papert, 1980) is credited as concretising Computational Thinking in 1980 but Jeanette Wing (Wing, 2006) popularised the term in 2006 and brought it to the international community's attention.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Secondary Education
Lockwood, James; Mooney, Aidan – Online Submission, 2018
Computational Thinking has been described as an essential skill which everyone should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert (Papert, 1980) is credited as concretising Computational Thinking in 1980 but Jeanette Wing (Wing, 2006) popularised the term in 2006 and brought it to the international community's attention.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Secondary Education
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Seo, Hyunjin; Altschwager, Darcey; Choi, Baekyoung; Song, Sejun; Britton, Hannah; Ramaswamy, Megha; Schuster, Bernard; Ault, Marilyn; Ayinala, Kaushik; Zaman, Rafida; Tihen, Ben; Yenugu, Lohitha – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021
As society increasingly relies on digital technologies in many different aspects, those who lack relevant access and skills are lagging increasingly behind. Among the underserved groups disproportionately affected by the digital divide are women who are transitioning from incarceration and seeking to reenter the workforce outside the carceral…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Females, Transitional Programs, Program Development
Fancsali, Cheri; Mirakhur, Zitsi; Klevan, Sarah; Rivera-Cash, Edgar – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2022
The perspective that computing and computational thinking (CT) are necessary competencies for the 21st century is increasingly pervasive. Computational concepts and methods--problem solving, designing systems, refining the steps in a process, and tinkering toward creative solutions--are relevant in nearly every discipline, profession, and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Computation, Science Instruction
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Chang, Yu-Hui; Peterson, Lana – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2018
Computational thinking (CT) is a process and skill set that is being expected of our students after their K-12 education. The issue is that most teachers do not know how to build CT expertise within their students. To address this challenge, we discuss two separate course designs within an initial teacher licensure course on educational…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers