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Jody Guarino; Chepina Rumsey; Sue Kim; Becky Holden – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
The same and different routine offers an opportunity to build a strong foundation for future grades while also deepening the experiences of prekindergarten and transitional kindergarten students. Students have opportunities to make sense, share ideas, and engage in the ideas of others. We conjecture this type of experience supports students and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Communication Skills
Siu-Cheung Kong; Ming Lai; Yugen Li; Tak-Yue Dickson Chan – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Concepts and practices are widely used to assess students' development in computational thinking (CT). However, less is known about how the development of each construct relates to that of the other. With a sample of 997 grade 6 students (average age = 11.43 at the beginning of the school year) from 14 primary schools, we examined the…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Student Development
van Borkulo, Sylvia Patricia; Chytas, Christos; Drijvers, Paul; Barendsen, Erik; Tolboom, Jos – Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) is gaining attention in education as a part of digital literacy and can be addressed in several disciplines, including mathematics. Through the lens of Brennan and Resnick's framework, we investigated how computational concepts, practices, and perspectives can be addressed in upper-secondary statistics lessons using…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Spreadsheets, Statistics Education
Schreiner, Claudia; Wiesner, Christian – European Educational Researcher, 2023
In the context of a rapid digital transformation, digital competence is now regarded as a fourth cultural skill complementing reading, writing, and arithmetic. We argue that a well-structured and sound competence model is needed as a shared foundation for learning, teaching, pedagogical diagnostics and evaluative schemes in the school system.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Digital Literacy, Competence
Anna van der Meulen; Mijke Hartendorp; Wendy Voorn; Felienne Hermans – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: In order to fully include learners with visual impairments in early programming education, it is necessary to gain insight into specificities regarding their experience of and approach to abstract computational concepts. Objective: In this study, we use the model of the layers of abstraction to explore how learners with…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Programming
Moonhyun Han; Janghee Uhm – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
This qualitative case study investigated how computational models can help students engage in scientific practice and influence their emotional, epistemic, and conceptual aspects. Twenty-four sixth-graders were guided to conduct scientific practices as they predicted and modified the computational models on food web using StarLogo Nova. Three…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Thinking Skills, Computation, Models
Andreas Haraldsrud; Tor Ole B. Odden – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
When learning chemistry, students must learn to extract chemical information from mathematical expressions. However, chemistry students' exposure to mathematics often comes primarily from pure mathematics courses, which can lead to knowledge fragmentation and potentially hinder their ability to use mathematics in chemistry. This study examines how…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Mathematics, Computation, Cognitive Processes
Aydan Aytekin; Mustafa Sami Topçu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Circulatory system is a challenging subject for middle school students to learn and understand conceptual relationships. To address these challenges, this study developed plugged (computational thinking activities using computer) and unplugged (computational thinking activities without using computer) teaching modules that integrated computational…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Human Body, Middle School Students
Christensen, Dana; Lombardi, Doug – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess the integration of computational thinking with learning about biological evolution. Specifically, we investigated the effectiveness of a framework from a recently developed learning progression that emphasises the complex nature of teaching both computational thinking and biological evolution.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Biology, Evolution
Mirolo, Claudio; Izu, Cruz; Lonati, Violetta; Scapin, Emanuele – Informatics in Education, 2021
When we "think like a computer scientist," we are able to systematically solve problems in different fields, create software applications that support various needs, and design artefacts that model complex systems. Abstraction is a soft skill embedded in all those endeavours, being a main cornerstone of computational thinking. Our…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Soft Skills, Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning
Emi Iwatani; Merijke Coenraad; Kyle M. Dunbar – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2025
Students in Appalachia have a heritage of problem-solving. We explore how computational thinking (CT) relates to and complements this heritage by analyzing 34 local ingenuity stories, and perspectives from 35 community members about the relevance of CT. We found the two problem-solving approaches are meaningfully different, but can be used in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Computation, Thinking Skills, Area Studies
Ernesto Sánchez; Victor Nozair García-Ríos; Francisco Sepúlveda – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
Sampling distributions are fundamental for statistical inference, yet their abstract nature poses challenges for students. This research investigates the development of high school students' conceptions of sampling distribution through informal significance tests with the aid of digital technology. The study focuses on how technological tools…
Descriptors: High School Students, Concept Formation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Welch, Lise E.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Clarke-Midura, Jody; Lee, Victor R. – Education Sciences, 2022
Programming activities have the potential to provide a rich context for exploring measurement units in early elementary mathematics. This study examines how a small group of young children (ages 5-6) express their emergent conception of a dynamic linear unit and the measurement concepts they found challenging. Video of an introductory programming…
Descriptors: Coding, Programming, Robotics, Measurement
Masters, Heidi; Docktor, Jennifer – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2022
A mixed-methods, quasi-experimental design was employed to explore how the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) framework along with written, verbal, and peer scaffolds would influence early childhood/elementary and elementary/middle childhood preservice teachers' (PSTs) abilities to formulate scientific explanations within a physical science…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Esteem, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Scientific Concepts
Shockey, Tod; Czerniak, Charlene; Ponnaiyan, Thehazhnan; Javaid, Ahmad; Oluoch, Jared – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2022
We present a case of one teacher's engagement in project-based learning for algebra I students. This teacher was a member of a cohort of mathematics teachers and career technical educators who participated in a two-week intensive summer institute investigating autonomous vehicles. During the academic year, the follow up support for these educators…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Student Projects