Interactive Assessment Tools for Computational Thinking in High School STEM Classrooms

This paper presents a pair of online, interactive assessments designed to measures students’ computational thinking skills. The assessments are part of a larger project to bring computational thinking into high school STEM classrooms. Each assessment includes interactive tools that highlight the pow...

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Published inIntelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment pp. 22 - 25
Main Authors Weintrop, David, Beheshti, Elham, Horn, Michael S., Orton, Kai, Trouille, Laura, Jona, Kemi, Wilensky, Uri
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
SeriesLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
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Assessment
Computational Thinking
STEM
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Summary:This paper presents a pair of online, interactive assessments designed to measures students’ computational thinking skills. The assessments are part of a larger project to bring computational thinking into high school STEM classrooms. Each assessment includes interactive tools that highlight the power of computation in the practice of scientific and mathematical inquiry. The computational tools used in our assessments enable students to analyze data with dynamic visualizations and explore concepts with computational models.
ISBN:9783319081885
3319081888
ISSN:1867-8211
1867-822X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-08189-2_3