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Direct linkAmanda Peel; Troy D. Sadler; Patricia Friedrichsen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Computational thinking (CT) is becoming increasingly important for K-12 science education, thus warranting new integrations of CT and science content. This intervention study integrated CT through unplugged, or handwritten, algorithmic explanations of natural selection. As students investigated natural selection in varying contexts (specific and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Kirçali, Aycan Çelik; Özdener, Nesrin – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
This study examines the effects of plugged and unplugged programming tools used in algorithm teaching at the K-12 level on student computational thinking skills and to determine whether gender is a factor in this process. The study group was designed with a control group pre-test--post-test; quasi-experimental model, that consisted of 109 students…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Algorithms
