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A study of primary school students' interest, collaboration attitude, and programming empowerment in computational thinking education.
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Computers & Education . Dec2018, Vol. 127, p178-189. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Abstract Building on Seymour Papert's view of empowering students by mastering programming, this study conceptualized programming empowerment as consisting of four components: meaningfulness, impact, creative self-efficacy, and programming self-efficacy. A sample of 287 primary school students in grades four to six completed a corresponding survey. Confirmatory factor analysis validated the proposed components of the programming empowerment instrument. A structural equation model indicated that students with greater interest in programming perceived it as more meaningful, had greater impact, had greater creative self-efficacy, and had greater programming self-efficacy. Also, students with attitudes toward collaboration that were more positive than others had greater creative self-efficacy. Boys showed more interest in programming than girls did. Students in higher grade levels than others viewed programming as less meaningful and had lower programming self-efficacy. These results support future studies that evaluate the impacts of interest-driven computational thinking and programming curricula with ample collaboration opportunities. Highlights • Empowerment consists of meaningfulness, impact, creative and programming self-efficacy. • The study validated the programming empowerment instrument. • Students with greater interest in programming perceive greater empowerment. • Students with positive collaboration attitude have greater creative self-efficacy. • Students in senior grades viewed programming as less meaningful than junior grades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03601315
- Volume :
- 127
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Computers & Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131998616
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.08.026