Assessing computational thinking: A systematic review of empirical studies

X Tang, Y Yin, Q Lin, R Hadad, X Zhai - Computers & Education, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increasing attention to Computational Thinking (CT) in education, there has been a
concomitant rise of needs and interest in investigating how to assess CT skills. This study …

Computational thinking in education: Where does it fit? A systematic literary review

J Lockwood, A Mooney - arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07659, 2017 - arxiv.org
Computational Thinking (CT) has been described as an essential skill which everyone
should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert is credited as …

Trends and development in research on computational thinking

M Tekdal - Education and Information Technologies, 2021 - Springer
As computational thinking (CT) has gained more attention as a research topic in the recent
decade, a paper to identify trends and development in CT research would be timely and …

Improving and assessing computational thinking in maker activities: The integration with physics and engineering learning

Y Yin, R Hadad, X Tang, Q Lin - Journal of Science Education and …, 2020 - Springer
Computational thinking (CT) is believed to be a critical factor to facilitate STEM learning, and
a vital learning objective itself. Therefore, researchers are continuing to explore effective …

Assessment of computer science learning in a scratch-based outreach program

D Franklin, P Conrad, B Boe, K Nilsen, C Hill… - Proceeding of the 44th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Many institutions have created and deployed outreach programs for middle school students
with the goal of increasing the number and diversity of students who later pursue careers in …

Computational Journalism. When journalism meets programming

E Stavelin - 2014 - bora.uib.no
Digital data sources and platforms allow journalists to produce news in new and different
ways. The shift from an analog to digital workflow introduces computation as a central …

Animal tlatoque: attracting middle school students to computing through culturally-relevant themes

D Franklin, P Conrad, G Aldana, S Hough - Proceedings of the 42nd …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
A popular approach to introducing students to computer science is to involve middle-school
students in engaging programming activities. One challenge in such a program is attracting …

Computational thinking in a bilingual kindergarten classroom: Emergent ideas for teaching across content areas

GH Krause, M Vanderberg, E E. Hung… - Education and …, 2023 - Springer
Our study documents how a Spanish-English bilingual elementary teacher learned
computational thinking while working to incorporate it into mathematics and language arts …

Supporting children's learning of probability through video game programming

Y Akpinar, Ü Aslan - Journal of Educational Computing …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Teaching programming and creating games have attracted much attention over the years,
mostly the attention of curriculum developers and teachers. This study designed and …

Assessment methods and interventions to develop computational thinking—A literature review

VVV Varghese, VG Renumol - 2021 International Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational Thinking (CT) allows us to solve complex problems by expressing it in a way
that computers, humans, or both, can understand. CT is closely related to problem solving …