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Effective Instructional Strategies for the Development of Computational Thinking in Primary Education: A Systematic Literature Review
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Francesco C. Ugolini; Panagiotis Kakavas – Research on Education and Media, 2024
This study consists of a 17-year (2006-2021) systematic literature review on the effective instructional strategies for developing Computational Thinking (CT) in primary school students (K-5). The aim of this paper is to identify instructional strategies that have been implemented and evaluated by means of a pre- and post-test, with the aim of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Social Addictive Gameful Engineering (SAGE): A Game-Based Learning and Assessment System for Computational Thinking
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Jeff Bender – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At an unrivaled and enduring pace, computing has transformed the world, resulting in demand for a universal fourth foundation beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic: computational thinking (CT). Despite increasingly widespread acceptance of CT as a crucial competency for all, transforming education systems accordingly has proven complex. The…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Game Based Learning, Evaluation Methods, Computation
Children's Solving of 'Tower of Hanoi' Tasks: Dynamic Testing with the Help of a Robot
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Resing, Wilma C. M.; Vogelaar, Bart; Elliott, Julian G. – Educational Psychology, 2020
The present study investigated the usefulness of a pre-programmed, teleoperated, socially assistive peer robot in dynamic testing of complex problem solving utilising the Tower of Hanoi. The robot, in a 'Wizard of Oz' setting, provided instructions and prompts during dynamic testing to children when they had to solve 3 D Tower of Hanoi puzzles.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Robotics, Puzzles, Grade 2
Data-Driven Hint Generation from Peer Debugging Solutions
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Liu, Zhongxiu – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Data-driven methods have been a successful approach to generating hints for programming problems. However, the majority of previous studies are focused on procedural hints that aim at moving students to the next closest state to the solution. In this paper, I propose a data-driven method to generate remedy hints for BOTS, a game that teaches…
Descriptors: Programming, Educational Games, Puzzles, Problem Solving
A Multimodal Approach to Coding Discourse: Collaboration, Distributed Cognition, and Geometric Reasoning
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Evans, Michael A.; Feenstra, Eliot; Ryon, Emily; McNeill, David – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011
Our research aims to identify children's communicative strategies when faced with the task of solving a geometric puzzle in CSCL contexts. We investigated how to identify and trace "distributed cognition" in problem-solving interactions based on discursive cohesion to objects, participants, and prior discursive content, and geometric and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Geometric Concepts, Children
Head Start Research and Evaluation Office, University of California at Los Angeles. Annual Report, November 1967. Section II.
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Stern, Carolyn – 1967
A Head Start research report on ways to improve academic achievement of disadvantaged children describes five projects: (1) a study of sociolinguistic variables in school learning and problem solving when classes are taught in dialect versus standard English; (2) subcultural determinants of cooperative and competitive behavior in preschool…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Dialects