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Computational Thinking:Assessment in Alice
Class Overview
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Computational Thinking 2
The Fairy Performance Assessment
How do we assess Computational Thinking?
2 year study using Alice with Middle Schoolers
Premise: Debug faulty programs based on design patterns learned in class
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Computational Thinking 3
Alice
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Computational Thinking 4
Purpose
Assess Knowledge
Why is there variation among students?• -> Strengthen efforts to engage K-12 in CT
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Computational Thinking 5
Demographic Data
325 students - 311 assessed
60% in-school
36% female
52% white, 37% latin[oa]
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Computational Thinking 6
Other Factors
Age, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Language, Parents computer usage, Parental education
levels, Grades, Favorite subject
Confidence with Computers,
Attitude towards Computers,
Frequency and Type of Computer Use,
Simple Alice Content Attendance Data, Hours spent paired
programming
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Computational Thinking 7
Semester Protocol
Challenges
* First Half* Self-paced* 11 + 6 bonus* Debug programs
Free Design
* Second half* Complete control
Fairy Assessment
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Computational Thinking 8
Fairy Assessment
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Computational Thinking 9
Computational Thinking Definition
“Thinking Algorithmically” “Making effective use of Abstraction and
Modeling” “Considering and Understanding Scale”
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Computational Thinking 10
Assessment Progression
First Fairy Walks into ForestManipulating Parameters
Use
Fairy regrows when key is pressedRemoving/Adding Instructions
Modify
The two fairies escapeCoding their own method, plus manipulating and using•“complex conditionals”,•“methods with multiple parameters”, and•event handling
Create
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Computational Thinking 11
Results
Paired Programming -> Better results More computer usage -> Better results Higher grades -> better results Confidence with Computers -> better results …
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Computational Thinking 12
More important results
Assessment was motivating (90% return rate)
Claim that it was positively correlated with another assessment of content knowledge• But no details provided!
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Computational Thinking 13
Criticisms
Very narrow definition of CT
Only focused on programming
How do we know it measured anything?
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Computational Thinking 14
Mediated Transfer: Alice 3 to Java
2 year study of CS1 to Java
Eclipse Plugin to convert Alice code to Java
Exam scores went up ~20%
Bridging vs. Hugging