Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE 2021, Virtual, Online, 26 - 29 Temmuz 2021
Computational thinking as a research domain and teaching subject has received the attention of researchers, policymakers, and teachers over the last decade, all over the world. Although computational thinking involves the problem-solving process, the implementation of computational thinking in daily instruction is not seen very often in many countries. The purpose of this research was to investigate the development of computational thinking in middle school students by using engineering problems and coding activities via distance education in Turkey. Participants were 30 middle school students and 15 elementary school students from the Marmara region of Turkey. This study is a part of a larger study. This study utilized a mixed-method study and data were collected by using both quantitative and qualitative methods. In data collection, the quantitative part used different instruments such as statistical analyses. Interviews, observations, and student artifacts are included in the qualitative part. Findings reveal that different activities had an impact on the different factors of computational thinking namely, abstraction, algorithm, pattern recognition, and decomposition.