In the realm of K-12 Education, the growing significance of Computational Thinking has sparked extensive inquiry into its nature and instructional methodologies. Despite a wealth of literature on the subject, ongoing debates persist regarding its fundamental components. Across global educational landscapes, Computational Thinking is being…

Higher education is considered a field in which students, teachers, and researchers develop a broader view of concepts in a detailed and profound manner. Education in Africa has been seen as a field of continuous progress due to the historical and cultural entity of the continent. Efforts to keep educational content innovative and modern have been…

Background/purpose: Teachers' pedagogical competence in Indonesia has become one of the central issues in improving the quality of national education. This issue can affect students' academic achievements and influence education quality. This study aims to explore the need to develop a new pedagogical module tailored to current educational…

The architecture of the computational thinking with gamified using artificial intelligence prompt engineering, or architecture of the CT platform with gamified, is a learning tool intended to promote activity-based learning that focuses on problem-solving by doing. This platform is fabricated with the combination of computational thinking process…

Computational thinking (CT) is an essential component of critical skills for university students, representing the ability to analyze and solve problems. In accordance with constructivist learning theory and the core elements of cultivating CT, this research has developed a Project-Based Teaching approach with computational thinking as its focal…

This study analyzes the influence of self-efficacy, learning attitude, and learning independence on students' metacognitive awareness and skills. The research employs a non-experimental quantitative design through a cross-sectional survey involving 340 Indonesian high school students. The findings, based on Structural Equation Modeling analysis,…

Background/purpose: Critical thinking (CT) is fundamental in science education, but instruments to measure CT in specific domains, such as physics, are still limited. The present study aims to develop and validate the Critical Thinking Test in Temperature and Heat (CTTH), an instrument designed to measure critical thinking skills in the topic of…

Background/purpose: In response to the increasing need to foster future-ready competencies, this study investigates the relationship between computational thinking (CT) and creative thinking (CrT) in early childhood. Traditional early education often overlooks the integration of these higher-order cognitive skills. This research aims to examine…

This study examines whether assessments focused on higher-order cognitive skills can help reduce AI-driven plagiarism in educational settings. A total of 123 participants completed three tasks of increasing complexity, aligned with Bloom's taxonomy, across four groups: control, e-textbook, Google, and ChatGPT. Results from repeated-measures ANOVA…

Although the Ghanaian mathematics curriculum emphasizes critical thinking as a core competence, students still appear to lack this skill. In this mixed-method study, the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy was used to assess senior high school students' thinking levels in permutation and combination. A sample of 256 males…

How science is traditionally taught and presented in westernized classrooms, Western Modern Science often does not offer creative and culturally sustaining pathways for students with diverse multicultural backgrounds to view science as a beneficial resource for their worldview, values, and funds of knowledge. This conceptual position paper…

The Australian Curriculum suggests that students have transitioned from additive to multiplicative thinking upon entry into secondary school. However, research shows that many students are thinking additively, placing them at a disadvantage to their multiplicative thinking peers. In this paper, early findings from a broader research project…

Scientific inquiry skills are crucial for scientific literacy and cognitive development in the 21st century. Prior research has identified key inquiry skills-- data analytics (DA), control of variables (COV), and scientific reasoning (SR)--but has not validated these skills through comprehensive assessments. The aim of this study was to validate…

Background: Analyzing student short-answer written justifications to conceptually challenging questions has proven helpful to understand student thinking and improve conceptual understanding. However, qualitative analyses are limited by the burden of analyzing large amounts of text. Purpose: We apply dense and sparse Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Education on computational thinking skills has been a focus in many countries. Previous studies have investigated educational board games based on computational thinking skills. However, there is a lack of research on the cognitive behaviors and cognitive styles promoted by these educational board games. Therefore, in this study, educational board…