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The Use of Computational Thinking Concepts in Early Primary School

This paper presents a study on the use of computational thinking (CT) in early primary school. First grade primary school students were using a custom designed CT tool as part of their school lessons. The tool allowed for designing and delivering digital tasks with CT content coming from three subject areas with the goal of finding out how well students complete such tasks. The tasks were aligned with course contents and the curriculum and required students to choose, set or order CT primitives in an adequate way. The tool allowed for automated task solution evaluation in form of animations and visualizations reflecting the exact steps chosen by the students and prompting them to revise their choice if needed. The analysis of students’ task completion process reveals that CT tasks including object properties and problems with loops were the most demanding, and that prior mathematics and reading skills impact early primary students’ CT task completion performance across school subjects.

computational thinking ; mobile learning ; early primary school ; student performance ; mathematics

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