@inproceedings{ae74e80910fb4ad595a052ce56f38d0d,
title = "Development of a computational thinking scale for programming",
abstract = "The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to assess students{\textquoteright} computational thinking for programming. A total of 427 middle school students were surveyed with a questionnaire about their computational thinking in a computer programing context. After an explorative factor analysis, a total of 20 items categorized in five factors were drawn in the final version of the scale. The five dimensions were abstraction, algorithm, decomposition, evaluation and generalization. In addition, the validity and the reliability of the scale were also examined in this study. The reliability of Cronbach{\textquoteright} α was .91 for the overall scale. This suggests that the scale is good enough for examining students{\textquoteright} computational thinking in a programming learning context.",
keywords = "Assessment tool, Computational thinking, Programming",
author = "Chu, {Yuan Kai} and Liang, {Jyh Chong} and Tsai, {Meng Jung}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, The Education University of Hong Kong. All rights reserved.; 3rd International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2019 ; Conference date: 13-06-2019 Through 15-06-2019",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789887703464",
series = "Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education",
publisher = "The Education University of Hong Kong",
pages = "185--189",
editor = "Siu-cheung KONG and Kuen-fung SIN and Diana ANDONE and Gautam BISWAS and HOPPE, {Heinz Ulrich} and Ting-chia HSU and Ronghuai-Huai HUANG and Bor-chen KUO and LI, {Kwok-yiu Robert} and Chee-kit LOOI and Marcelo MILRAD and Josh SHELDON and Ju-ling SHIH and Ki-sang SONG and Jan VAHRENHOLD",
booktitle = "Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2019",
}