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João Piedade; Nuno Dorotea – Informatics in Education, 2023
Computational Thinking (CT) has emerged in recent years as a thematic trend in education in many countries and several initiatives have been developed for its inclusion in school curricula. There are many pedagogical strategies to promote the development of elementary school students' CT skills and knowledge. Unplugged learning tasks, block-based…
Descriptors: Programming, Programming Languages, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Semra Fis Erümit – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
This study investigates the contribution of plugged and un-plugged activities to primary school students' development of computational thinking skills. The plugged and unplugged activities were used together in this study. In the implementation, in addition to the un-plugged activities prepared by the "Ministry of National Education,"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Computation, Programming
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Huang, Joey; Parker, Miranda C. – Computer Science Education, 2023
Background and Context: Computational thinking (CT) is a critical part of computing education in middle school. The existing practices of collaboration and collaborative design activities at this education level pairs well with CT practices, but this interaction has previously been under-explored in the existing literature. Objective: In this…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning, Skill Development
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Carina Büscher – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Computational thinking (CT) is becoming increasingly important as a learning content. Subject-integrated approaches aim to develop CT within other subjects like mathematics. The question is how exactly CT can be integrated and learned in mathematics classrooms. In a case study involving 12 sixth-grade learners, CT activities were explored that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education
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Mehmet Küçük; Tarik Talan; Muhammet Demirbilek – Informatics in Education, 2024
This study investigated the effects of 3D model building activities with block codes on students' spatial thinking and computational thinking skills. The study group consists of 5th grade students in a secondary school in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. For the study, a pretestposttest control group was utilized within the experimental…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Programming
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Munasinghe, Bhagya; Bell, Tim; Robins, Anthony – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
An unplugged approach to teaching enables students to explore Computational Thinking without using a computer. It might appear that if students are to learn programming, they should focus on computer-based work; however, it appears that using "unplugged" activities before engaging in computer-based coding (programming) activities for…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Programming, Introductory Courses, Computation
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Othman, Mohd Kamal; Jazlan, Syazni; Yamin, Fatin Afiqah; Aman, Shaziti; Mohamad, Fitri Suraya; Anuar, Nurfarahani Norman; Saleh, Abdulrazak Yahya; Abdul Manaf, Ahmad Azaini – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
This study investigates how digital game co-creation promotes Computational Thinking (CT) skills among children in sub-urban primary schools. Understanding how CT skills can be fostered in learning programming concepts through co-creating digital games is crucial to determine instructional strategies that match the young students' interests and…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Video Games, Foreign Countries
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Zsoldos-Marchi?, Iuliana; Bálint-Svella, Éva – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2023
The concept, development and assessment of computational thinking have increasingly become the focus of research in recent years. Most of this type of research focuses on older children or adults. Preschool age is a sensitive period when many skills develop intensively, so the development of computational thinking skills can already begin at this…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Computation, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Tests
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Kilhamn, C.; Bråting, K.; Helenius, O.; Mason, J. – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
In this paper we consider implications of the current world-wide inclusion of computational thinking in relation to children's development of algebraic thinking. Little is known about how newly developed visual programming environments such as Scratch could enhance early algebra learning. The study is based on examples of programming activities…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Preadolescents, Programming
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Troussas, Christos; Krouska, Akrivi; Sgouropoulou, Cleo – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: This article presents the instruction of computer programming using adaptive learning activities considering students' cognitive skills based on the learning theory of the Revised Bloom Taxonomy (RBT). To achieve this, the system converts students' knowledge level to fuzzy weights, and using rule-based decision making, delivers…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Kwon, Kyungbin; Jeon, Minji; Guo, Meize; Yan, Ge; Kim, Jiyoung; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne T.; Brush, Thomas A. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
The primary goals of this research were to investigate the development of computational thinking (CT) skills among elementary students and to identify areas for improvement in their CT practices. Empirical investigations, accomplished in a learner-centered, problem-based learning curriculum for sixth-graders, sought to examine student proficiency…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Based Learning, Elementary School Students
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Li, Qi; Jiang, Qiang; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Xiong, Weiyan; Liang, Yu; Zhao, Wei – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Different instructional strategies have been drawn to assist elementary school students in improving computational thinking (CT) skills and student engagement (SE) in unplugged programming activities. This paper aimed to explore how the interactive strategies of unplugged programming affect CT skills and SE. The study was conducted based on a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Programming, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Polat, Elif; Yilmaz, Rabia Meryem – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The aim of this study is to compare the effects of unplugged and plugged-in activities on academic achievement and computational thinking (CT) skills of sixth-grade students. Mixed-method research was carried out to explore whether there were differences between the groups, and to learn the students' opinions and experiences regarding the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Programming, Computer Science Education, Computation
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Rizk, Nadya; McKenzie, Matt; Samrout, Marya – Teaching Science, 2022
Coding is a process often associated with computers. Nevertheless, coding is a thought process that can be mastered even without a computer. In NSW, primary students are introduced to computational and algorithmic thinking as early as Stage 1. Yet, teaching coding to young students is not always easy for teachers, mostly because the process is…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills
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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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