Measuring Computational Thinking Through Modeling Problem-Solving Processes in Game-Based Learning

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: Computational Thinking Through Coding, Programming, and Computing (Table 7)

Abstract

Educational games are believed to be a viable environment for students’ computational thinking (CT) development. In games, students engage in complex interactive environments to solve different computational problems. This study reports a model that is built to represent students’ problem-solving process and its relationship to students’ CT skills in a game-based learning (GBL) environment. The preliminary results identify two unique states (i.e., solution construction and problem/solution evaluation) in students’ problem-solving processes. In addition, the proportion of solution construction is negatively related to students’ CT skills.

Authors

• Zhichun Liu, University of Hong Kong
  Presenting Author

• Yifei Zhang
  Non-Presenting Author

• Zecheng Chang, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Non-Presenting Author