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Investigating K-2 students’ computational thinking skills during a problem-solving activity about the water cycle using educational robotics
(2019)
The development of computational thinking is as important as writing, reading and arithmetic, and, it should start as earlyas kindergarten (Wing, 2008). However, little has been done in terms of investigating the factors ...
Instructional strategies for teaching critical thinking: An empirical investigation
(LAP Lambert Academic Publishing., 2010)
Scientific Investigations of Elementary School Children Technology
(2014)
The study provides evidence concerning elementary school children's ability to conduct a scientific investigation. Two hundred and fifty sixth-grade students and 248 fourth-grade students were administered a test, and based ...
Call for Papers
(Sage Publications Inc, 2011)
A call for papers on educational computing research is presented.
The impact of cognitive and affective aspects of cognitive conflict on learners' conceptual change about floating and sinking
(2013)
Cognitive conflict has been identified as an important factor for bringing about students’ conceptual change. Researchers draw attention to the need to study not only cognitive factors related to cognitive conflict but ...
An instructional design model for teaching pre-service elementary teachers to teach science with computer modelsAdvanced Science Letters
(2011)
Many reported studies about models and modeling clearly indicate that teachers need to be knowledgeable about the role of models and modeling in science and need to be engaged in rich modeling activities, so that they ...
Examining the effects of field dependence-independence on learners' problem-solving performance and interaction with a computer modeling tool: Implications for the design of joint cognitive systems
(2013)
An investigation was carried out to examine the effects of cognitive style on learners' performance and interaction during complex problem solving with a computer modeling tool. One hundred and nineteen undergraduates ...
Epistemological beliefs and Ill-structured Problem-solving in Solo and paired contexts
(2012)
A mixed-method exploratory approach was employed to examine the relationship between epistemological beliefs and quality of thinking when participants first thought about an ill-structured problem alone, and then with ...