97. Fostering Middle School Students’ Computational Thinking Competency in Game-based Learning

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  In Poster Session: TIL Poster Session

Short Description

Prior research studies in the field of using games to improve computational thinking draw predominant attention to programming concepts and skills than developing computational thinking competency that students can use across the inter-disciplines. Therefore, the current study investigated how curriculum-oriented game-based learning impacted middle school students’ learning processes, particularly on the development of students’ computational thinking competency, self-efficacy toward computational thinking, and learning engagement.

Authors

• Contributor: Yanjun N/A Pan, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Elizabeth Adams, American Institutes for Research

• Contributor: Paul Foster, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Lawrence Klinkert, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Emma Goff, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Ching-Yu Tseng, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Eric C. Larson, Southern Methodist University

• Contributor: Corey Clark, Southern Methodist University