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Nikolaos Pellas – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Educational technologists and practitioners have made substantial strides in developing affordable digital and tangible resources to support both formal and informal computer science instruction. However, there is a lack of research on practice-based assignments, such as Internet of Things (IoT) projects, that allow undergraduate students to…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Learning Motivation, Academic Persistence
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Esteve-Mon, Francesc M.; Adell-Segura, Jordi; Llopis Nebot, María Ángeles; Valdeolivas Novella, Gracia; Pacheco Aparicio, Julio – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2019
Aim/Purpose: This research aims to describe and demonstrate the results of an intervention through educational robotics to improve the computational thinking of student teachers. Background: Educational robotics has been increasing in school classrooms for the development of computational thinking and digital competence. However, there is a lack…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Robotics
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Tsai, Meng-Jung; Wang, Ching-Yeh; Hsu, Po-Fen – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
Computer programming has been gradually emphasized in recent computer literacy education and regarded as a requirement for all middle school students in some countries. To understand young students' perceptions about their own learning in computer programming, this study aimed to develop an instrument, Computer Programming Self-Efficacy Scale…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Literacy, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
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Maruyama, Ryoga; Ogata, Shinpei; Kayama, Mizue; Tachi, Nobuyuki; Nagai, Takashi; Taguchi, Naomi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
This study aims to explore an educational learning environment that supports students to learn conceptual modelling with the unified modelling language (UML). In this study, we call the describing models "UML programming." In this paper, we show an educational UML programming environment for science, technology, engineering, art, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Programming Languages, Learning Processes, Models
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Angeli, Charoula M.; Jaipal-Jamani, Kamini – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
In an era where computational thinking is regarded as a basic skill for the 21st century that needs to be taught across the K-12 curriculum, research shows that teacher education programs do not adequately prepare preservice teachers to promote computational thinking skills in classroom teaching. Accordingly, the present study contributes to the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Programming, Robotics, Preservice Teachers
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Suters, Leslie; Suters, Henry; Anderson, Adam – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2021
This paper describes a 54-hour summer institute for grades 6-12 mathematics and science teachers (N = 19) with a comprehensive approach to preparing teachers to use computational thinking (CT) in their classrooms, including training in Python computer programming with Lego® Mindstorms® robotics, mathematics content sessions, and opportunities to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Programming
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Castledine, Alanah-Rei; Chalmers, Chris – Design and Technology Education, 2011
With the current curriculum focus on correlating classroom problem solving lessons to real-world contexts, are LEGO robotics an effective problem solving tool? This present study was designed to investigate this question and to ascertain what problem solving strategies primary students engaged with when working with LEGO robotics and whether the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Grade 6, Relevance (Education)