Promoting children's computational thinking: A quasi‐experimental study of web‐mediated parent education.
Background: Computational thinking (CT) has become a crucial skill for individuals in the 21st century, and while more educators are starting to recognize the importance of CT education, there is still a lack of research on how to teach young children CT, particularly outside of traditional school s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 1564 - 1576 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=171903677&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 171903677 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02664909 6M1 jtl: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning issn: 02664909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Oct2023 vid: 39 iid: 5 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 171903677 163179315 171903677 171903677 10.1111/jcal.12818 171903677 ppf: 1564 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Promoting children's computational thinking: A quasi‐experimental study of web‐mediated parent education. aug: au: Li, Wanyi Yang, Weipeng affil: Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, , China sug: subj: Thinking In Infancy and Childhood Learning Methods Teaching Methods Education, Non-Traditional Program Evaluation Age Factors Sex Factors Social Class Parents Human China Female Male Child Quasi-Experimental Studies Control Group Pretest-Posttest Design Questionnaires Teachers Hypothesis One-Way Analysis of Variance Analysis of Covariance Effect Size Two-Way Analysis of Variance Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Child: 6-12 years Female Male ab: Background: Computational thinking (CT) has become a crucial skill for individuals in the 21st century, and while more educators are starting to recognize the importance of CT education, there is still a lack of research on how to teach young children CT, particularly outside of traditional school settings. Objectives: To fill the gap in knowledge, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a web‐based parent education program on improving children's CT skills. Additionally, we sought to determine if children's age, gender and family socioeconomic status had any impact on the development of CT skills. Methods: We selected 86 adult–child pairs in the K3 age group to participate in a 4‐week intervention program using a quasi‐experimental approach. Results: After 4 weeks, children in the intervention group had improved their CT skills more than their peers in the control group. This shows that the intervention was successful in enhancing children's CT skills. Age had a moderating effect on CT enhancement, with older children showing a more significant improvement than younger children. However, children's gender and family socioeconomic status did not have any moderating effects. Conclusions: These results demonstrate that CT education can be effectively implemented in the home setting through web‐mediated parent education. Encouraging the use of unplugged CT activities at home can aid children in acquiring CT skills. Lay Description: What is already known about this topic: Computational thinking (CT) education can be started at the early childhood stage.Both plugged‐in and unplugged activities can promote children's CT.Unplugged activities have many advantages and are suitable for young children. What this paper adds: Web‐mediated parent education is useful for equipping parents with the knowledge and skills to conduct CT activities at home.CT education has a positive effect on children in the home setting.Parents play an important leading role in children's CT education.Parent–child unplugged activities are beneficial to children's CT enhancement. Implications for practice and/or policy: A web‐mediated approach is an appropriate way to encourage parent participation in CT training.CT‐related parent education should be scaled up so that parents can play an active educational role at home.Unplugged CT activities should be designed more for the home settings in addition to school settings. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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