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Effect of an OwlSpace Programming Course on the Computational Thinking of Elementary School Students
Volume 23, Issue 1 (2024), pp. 145–178
Li Wei-Ying   Lu Tzu-Chuen  

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https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2024.07
Pub. online: 18 March 2024      Type: Article     

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18 March 2024

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This study investigates the effect of programming courses on the computational thinking (CT) skills of elementary school students and the learning effectiveness of students from different backgrounds who are studying programming. We designed a OwlSpace programming course into an elementary school curriculum. Students in fourth and fifth grades were taught the fundamentals of programming. We measured and analyzed the effectiveness of their CT skills and self-efficacy in CT. The researchers analyzed the changes in the CT of different gender, different grade, and different past experience students in programming courses and then made specific recommendations for information technigy teachers and related units. The results demonstrate that students learned and improved their CT skills by taking OwlSpace programming course. Additionally, gender, grade, and past experience are found to have no impact on the students’ learning that means the course can improve students ability without limited any characteristics.

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Keywords
computational thinking OwlSpace programming script-block-based programming language

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