Paper Info
Title
Exploration Of Computational Thinking Based On Bebras Performance In Webduino Programming By High School Students
Abstract
The 12-year Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan includes learning performances related to computational thinking and programming languages in technology courses. The students will develop other important competence through programming. Learning a programming language should not only involve focus on writing the programs, but should also stimulate students' computational thinking competence and allow them to solve daily problems through information techniques. Situated learning emphasizes students' learning in real scenarios where knowledge is applied as the tool in these real situations. Without such scenarios, the tool has limited value. Like-wise, computational thinking competence can be translated as effective problem-solving by the means of information technology. Hence, the thinking process involves analyzing the problems resulting in answers. In addition, the Bebras learning model is based on a concept of informatics which supports comprehension of information science phenomenon and development of computational thinking. This study explored the effects of computational thinking competence on the Bebras test performance. The study targeted senior high school students' who learned program design using a situated learning strategy.The results confirm the importance of the situated learning strategy when cultivating students' computational thinking competence. Based on homogeneity of two groups of students, the experimental group's posttest score of computational thinking is higher than that of control group. The experimental group were exposed to a situated learning strategy and the control group was not. Significant difference between the two groups shows that the situated learning strategy reinforces computational thinking competence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-99737-7_47
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND LEARNING, ICITL 2018
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Situated learning, Computational thinking, Bebras
Conference
11003
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian-Ming Chen100.34
Ting-Ting Wu203.72
Frode Eika Sandnes357975.48