Assessing Elementary Teachers' Knowledge of Integrated Computational Thinking

During the UnboxingCT project summer professional development, the Integrated CT Assessment was piloted with 72 elementary teachers. The assessment is based on computational thinking integration literature and asks teachers to identify different computational thinking concepts in content area scenarios. The assessment allowed us to identify which computational thinking concepts teachers were most familiar with prior to the professional development and assess changes in their understanding following the professional development. Our next step will be validation of the assessment with a larger group of teachers.

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2025-02-18
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3641555.3705131
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Teaching and Learning Programming
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Abstract

During the UnboxingCT project summer professional development, the Integrated CT Assessment was piloted with 72 elementary teachers. The assessment is based on computational thinking integration literature and asks teachers to identify different computational thinking concepts in content area scenarios. The assessment allowed us to identify which computational thinking concepts teachers were most familiar with prior to the professional development and assess changes in their understanding following the professional development. Our next step will be validation of the assessment with a larger group of teachers.

The University of Texas at Arlington (US), Citadel (US)
Quality Education
Openalex Percentile: Top 98%
Teaching and Learning Programming
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