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Xinli Zhang; Yuchen Chen; Lailin Hu; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Yun-Fang Tu – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: In the digital age, fostering young children's computational thinking (CT) and executive functions (EFs) through programming has emerged as a significant research issue. While unplugged programming activities are commonly adopted in preschools, robot programming activities have recently gained attention for the potential to enhance…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Executive Function, Programming
Bati, Kaan – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This research was aimed at summarizing experimental evidence regarding computational thinking and programming conducted in early childhood education in terms of the variables of plugged-in versus unplugged, age, and gender. For this purpose, the WoS, Scopus, and ERIC databases were scanned, and studies determined to be within the scope of the…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Early Childhood Education
Stamatios, Papadakis – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Computational Thinking (CT) and the understanding of how programs are being executed is internationally acknowledging as a necessity for today's students and citizens of tomorrow. Despite the multifaceted nature of CT, the introduction of CT and associate concepts such as coding is regarded as developmental acceptable for preschool and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming
Lihui Sun; Junjie Liu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
This study investigated the effects of the single programming approach (plugged-in and unplugged) and the mixed programming approach (plugged-in-first and unplugged-first) on the computational thinking (CT) skills of first-grade students. However, focusing only on the programming learning approach itself is insufficient. Therefore, the influences…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Zhenhua Wu; Linting Zheng; Li'an Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Programming has been considered a crucial "object to think with", which can integrate with various disciplines and facilitate learning in other areas. However, existing research primarily focuses on how children learn to code rather than how coding helps them to learn. To address this gap, a quasi-experimental case study was conducted…
Descriptors: Coding, Robotics, Programming, Kindergarten
Valerie Critten; Hannah Hagon; Melike Aslan Unlu – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
In light of current developments, there is an increasing effort to integrate computing-oriented activities into the education of children as young as two years old. Although the computing strand is not officially addressed in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (DfES, 2024), a small number of early years teachers in England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Computation, Problem Solving
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
Ipek Isik Arslanoglu; Serhat Bahadir Kert; Ismail Tonbuloglu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aims to examine the effect of augmented reality-assisted programming education supported by participatory design on the basic and computational thinking skills of preschoolers. In the study, a pretest-posttest single-group semi-experimental design, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The study group of the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Computation, Thinking Skills
Yang, Weipeng; Ng, Davy Tsz Kit; Gao, Hongyu – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Programmable robotics is recently used in early childhood education (ECE) to introduce programming and computational thinking (CT) skills. However, there is a further need for research to contrast the efficacy of children's participation in robot programming and traditionally beneficial ECE activities. The present study thus investigated the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Robotics, Programming
Ozyurt, Ozcan; Ozyurt, Hacer – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) has started to attract attention as an important research topic in recent years. It is important to describe the CT field in detail and to determine the research interests and trends of studies in this field. In this most comprehensive and first topic modeling based study in the field of CT, it was aimed to determine…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Educational Trends, Educational Research
First Graders Coordination of Counting and Movements on a Grid When Programming with Tangible Blocks
Abigail Erskine; Laura Bofferding; Sezai Kocabos; Haoran Tang – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
As elementary students begin to program using tangible blocks, they must coordinate their use of counting with the movements, directions, and numbers they use to move a character. In our study, we analyzed 13 first graders' first attempts at coordinating these elements when playing a programming game on the iPad that used tangible programming…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1, Computation
Rina Zviel Girshin; Nathan Rosenberg; Ida Kukliansky – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
This longitudinal study of robot programming in early childhood (ROPEC) was performed based on summative and formative assessments of the robotics program in kindergarten and year one of elementary school. The study aims to broaden our knowledge about children's understanding of programming, their confidence in ability to read and write programs,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Early Childhood Education, Computation
Seckel, María José; Vásquez, Claudia; Samuel, Marjorie; Breda, Adriana – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Computational thinking in the educational environment has awaken a rising interest, having been included as part of the curricula from the very beginnings of education. Programmable robots have become a valuable positive resource in order to succeed in the development of computational thinking, demanding proper training from kindergarten teachers…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Programming, Ownership, Robotics
Kale, Ugur; Yuan, Jiangmei – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
Computational thinking is a means to understand and solve complex problems through using computer science concepts and techniques. While there is an increase in the number of initiatives focusing on coding, whether they (a) address computational thinking and problem-solving skills and (b) use methods of teaching problem solving is yet to be…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Programming
Ray, Beverly B.; Rogers, Reenay R. H.; Gallup, Jennifer – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2022
Research explored the change in perspectives of PK-12 social studies teachers regarding coding as a useful instructional tool. Using exploratory methods, researchers examined to what extent participants (n = 26) were willing to embrace coding as a teaching and learning strategy. Findings suggest that participants' perspectives on the utility of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Teachers, Social Studies