Elementary Students' Computational Thinking in Robotics Programming

• In Event: Computational Thinking, Makerspace, and Robotics in Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prediction of creativity and academic interest on computational thinking in robotics-programming. The participants in this study were 80 5th elementary school students who took a weekly robotics-programming course in Spring 2017. With the use of regression analysis and Baron & Kenny’s mediated effect verification (1986), the key findings of this study were as follows: creativity and academic interest significantly predicted computational thinking, and academic interest has a mediating role between creativity and computational thinking. Based on the results, this study suggested the instructional implications that creativity and academic interest should be considered as enhancing computational thinking.

Authors

• Jeongmin Lee, Ewha Womans University

• Yeonji Jung, New York University

• Myunghwa Lee, Ewha Womans University