Preliminary Analysis of an Instrument to Assess Computational Thinking Skills in Japanese Junior High Students
Abstract: As an attempt to build a standardized measurement scale for Computational Thinking (CT) skills and abilities, we created and tested a set of 19 small paper-and-pencil test problems for assessing students’ CT abilities, where each problem corresponded to one component of the whole set of CT skills. An examination of how the CT test scores were correlated with their programming abilities was completed by examining the correlations between the CT test scores and scores for computer programming in Scratch from the same 116 junior-high students. Overall, our preliminary attempt for a standardized CT test problem set is empirically supported.
Presider: Rhonda Christensen, University of North Texas