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Preparing Teachers to Capture and Assess Evidence of Computational Thinking
Kevin Oliver; Jennifer Houchins
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 370–375
As computational thinking (CT) approaches filter into teacher education and schools, teachers should be educated about CT and its underlying competencies (e.g., decomposition, abstraction, algorithmic thinking) to inform appropriate assessments....
Topics: Best practices in assessment, Teacher education and technology integration
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Evidence of Computational Thinking in the After-School Makerspace from Written Project Documentation
Kevin Oliver; Jennifer Houchins
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 402–407
This paper presents analyzed data from the first year of a three-year grant investigating computational thinking in an after-school makerspace that supports projects in circuitry, programmed robotics, and fabrication. To document evidence of...
Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Course, program, project, and other forms of evaluation
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Computational Thinking in Student Reflections: A Thematic Analysis of Video Project Documentation in the Afterschool Makerspace
Jennifer Houchins; Kevin Oliver
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 358–363
This paper presents analyzed data from the second year of a three-year grant investigating computational thinking in an after-school makerspace that supports projects in circuitry, programmed robotics, and fabrication. To document evidence of...
Topics: Best practices in assessment
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Evidence of Computational Thinking from Circuitry Projects in the After-School Makerspace
Kevin Oliver; Jennifer Houchins
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 364–369
Between 2016-2019, an after-school maker club was established at a public, all-girls school in the United States. Club members in grades 6-10 (ages 11-15) participated in three project areas tied to state and national science standards: circuitry,...
Topics: Best practices in assessment, Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning
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Computational Thinking and other Emergent Practices in Student Reflections on Makerspace Activities
Jennifer Houchins; Cansu Tatar; Kevin Oliver
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 29–37
Assessing learning outcomes, particularly with respect to computational thinking, within informal learning environments such as makerspaces is often difficult since clear measures of these outcomes do not currently exist. Identifying how students...
Topics: Computational Thinking, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)
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Informing Recommended Makerspace Outcomes through Linguistic Analytics
Kevin Oliver; Jennifer Houchins; Robert Moore
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1624–1629
An after-school maker club collected student reflections on makerspace projects in different formats over two years: private written reflections captured in the 3D GameLab gamification platform and video-recorded reflections posted in the more...
Topics: Assessment and E-Folios, Research & Evaluation, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)
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Computational Thinking in Education
Miroslava Černochová; Diane van der Linde; Allard Strijker; Erik Bolhuis; Wim Trooster; Kevin Oliver; Jennifer Houchins; Joke Voogt
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 449–452
Computational Thinking has been given an important place in education. Embedding computational thinking in curricula or attainment levels requires attention for this subject in teacher training programmes, as well as in the design of teaching...
Topics: Education reform with technology