Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities

Wei Lin Li; Chiu Fan Hu; Cheng Chih Wu

doi:10.1145/2899415.2925496

Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities

Wei Lin Li, Chiu Fan Hu, Cheng Chih Wu

Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Abstract

In this study we developed three hands-on activities to teach high school students computational thinking (CT) and, specifically, the decomposition skills. The activities were designed to enable students to solve problems by using application tools. The computer science concepts utilized in the activities included binary search, quick sort and iteration. We evaluated the effect of the activities utilizing a post- Activity questionnaire, a post- Test, students' worksheets, and semi-structured interviews with the participating students. The results indicated that the hands-on activities developed in this study improved students' CT ability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450342315
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2925496
Publication status	Published - 2016 Jul 11
Event	2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2016 - Arequipa, Peru Duration: 2016 Jul 11 → 2016 Jul 13

Publication series

Name	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
Volume	11-13-July-2016
ISSN (Print)	1942-647X

Other

Other	2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2016
Country	Peru
City	Arequipa
Period	16/7/11 → 16/7/13

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Keywords

Computational thinking
Computer science
Hands-on

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management of Technology and Innovation
Education

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Li, W. L., Hu, C. F., & Wu, C. C. (2016). Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities. In ITiCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE; Vol. 11-13-July-2016). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2925496

Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities. / Li, Wei Lin; Hu, Chiu Fan; Wu, Cheng Chih.

ITiCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE; Vol. 11-13-July-2016).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Li, WL, Hu, CF & Wu, CC 2016, Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities. in ITiCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, vol. 11-13-July-2016, Association for Computing Machinery, 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2016, Arequipa, Peru, 16/7/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2925496

Li WL, Hu CF, Wu CC. Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities. In ITiCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery. 2016. (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE). https://doi.org/10.1145/2899415.2925496

Li, Wei Lin ; Hu, Chiu Fan ; Wu, Cheng Chih. / Teaching high school students computational thinking with hands-on activities. ITiCSE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE).

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