TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring Computational Thinking across Disciplines through Student-Generated Artifact Analysis
AU - Zhang, Yifan
AU - Mohammad Mirzaei, Amanda
AU - Pollock, Lori
AU - Mouza, Chrystalla
AU - Guidry, Kevin
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under Award # 1611959.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Owner/Author.
PY - 2021/3/3
Y1 - 2021/3/3
N2 - To meet the demands of 21st century societies, it is essential that faculty across disciplines engage students with course activities and assignments that foster the development of computational thinking (CT). In this study, we address two pertinent questions: (1) What types of artifacts do students develop across different disciplines in response to CT-driven problem prompts' and (2) What types of CT skills do these artifacts demonstrate? To answer the questions, we examined 273 artifacts developed by undergraduate students across seven course assignments from four disciplines: Mathematics, sociology, music, and English using a rubric developed to evaluate the following CT skills: Abstraction, decomposition, data analysis, and algorithmic thinking. We found that a range of skills were reflected across student artifacts.
AB - To meet the demands of 21st century societies, it is essential that faculty across disciplines engage students with course activities and assignments that foster the development of computational thinking (CT). In this study, we address two pertinent questions: (1) What types of artifacts do students develop across different disciplines in response to CT-driven problem prompts' and (2) What types of CT skills do these artifacts demonstrate? To answer the questions, we examined 273 artifacts developed by undergraduate students across seven course assignments from four disciplines: Mathematics, sociology, music, and English using a rubric developed to evaluate the following CT skills: Abstraction, decomposition, data analysis, and algorithmic thinking. We found that a range of skills were reflected across student artifacts.
KW - computational thinking
KW - undergraduate education
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U2 - 10.1145/3408877.3439594
DO - 10.1145/3408877.3439594
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103307727
T3 - SIGCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 1315
BT - SIGCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2021
Y2 - 13 March 2021 through 20 March 2021
ER -