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Xiaoxuan Fang; Davy Tsz Kit Ng; Manwai Yuen – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
To promote computational thinking in mathematics education, Scratch is used to foster students' computational thinking and mathematical understanding. However, students face challenges in block-based programming environments, such as having low motivation, high anxiety, and cognitive loads. This study combined the pedagogical values of Geogebra…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Mental Computation, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5
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Boom, Kay-Dennis; Bower, Matt; Siemon, Jens; Arguel, Amaël – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Computational thinking -- the ability to reformulate and solve problems in ways that can be undertaken by computers -- has been heralded as a foundational capability for the 21st Century. However, there are potentially different ways to conceptualise and measure computational thinking, for instance, as generalized problem solving capabilities or…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Programming
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Fadip Audu Nannim; Nnenna Ekpereka Ibezim; Basil C. E. Oguguo; Emmanuel Chinweike Nwangwu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study investigated the effect of project-based Arduino robot application on students' computational thinking skills development in robotics programming course using the quasi-experimental research design. The participants consist of 73 students in tertiary institutions in South-East Nigeria that offer Computer and Robotics Education…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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Barrón-Estrada, María Lucia; Zatarain-Cabada, Ramón; Romero-Polo, Jorge Abraham; Monroy, Julieta Noguez – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Pattern recognition is an important skill of Computational Thinking and is one of the most important competences for solving a problem that involves finding similarities or patterns in small problems to solve more complex ones. In this work, we present the mobile application software Patrony. The main contribution of this work is to promote the…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Pattern Recognition, Computation
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Shao-Chen Chang; Charoenchai Wongwatkit – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
As computational thinking becomes increasingly essential, the challenge of designing effective teaching approaches to foster students' abilities in this area persists, especially for higher order thinking skills. This study addresses this challenge by proposing and implementing a peer assessment-based Scrum project (PA-SP) learning approach in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Computer Science Education, Programming, Mental Computation
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Sari, Ugur; Pektas, Hüseyin Miraç; Sen, Ömer Faruk; Çelik, Harun – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The need to benefit from information technologies in the twenty-first century digital age is increasing in all economies to overcome problems and difficulties and to have desired solutions. So, developing algorithmic thinking has been important as a skill that requires the application of knowledge from different disciplines, especially science,…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Thinking Skills, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education