Developing young children's computational thinking with educational robotics: An interaction effect between gender and scaffolding strategy

• Published in: Computers in human behavior Vol. 105; p. 105954
• Main Authors: Angeli, Charoula, Valanides, Nicos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elmsford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2020; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Bee-Bot; Children; Children & youth; Classrooms; Cognitive tasks; Complexity; Computational thinking; Critical thinking; Curricula; Debugging; Decomposition; Educational robotics; Girls; Learning; Pre-primary school children; Robotics; Scaffolding; Skills; Spatial relations; Statistical significance; Strategy; Computational thinking; Spatial relations; Educational robotics; Scaffolding; Bee-Bot; Pre-primary school children

The study examined the effects of learning with the Bee-Bot on young boys' and girls' computational thinking within the context of two scaffolding techniques. The study reports statistically significant learning gains between the initial and final assessment of children's computationa...