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The Fairy Performance Assessment:Measuring Computational Thinking
in Middle School
Linda Werner, UC Santa CruzJill Denner, ETR Associates
Shannon Campe, ETR AssociatesDamon Chizuru Kawamoto
Funded by the NSF grant DRL-0909733
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Project Overview
Storytelling Alice & Alice 2.2
Elective technology classes
325 middle school students
311 completed assessment
Solo or programming pairs
~20 hours
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Assessment DesignStory-narrative
Fixing faulty program & adding functionality
Motivating
Post only
Individually completed
~30 minutes to complete
Instructions delivered via characters & print
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MeasuringComputational Thinking
Three tasks to measure:
Algorithmic thinking
Abstraction & Modeling
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Alice “Fairy” world
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“Resize” TaskMake pressing the up arrow work right and return LeafFlame to his original size.
Challenges student to:
Understand events
Recognize faulty event handler
Think algorithmically
Repair faulty method
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Faulty code
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Partial points
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Contributions
Student transfers knowledge
Motivating to students
Range of computational thinking
Modified for other programming environments
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Still to come…
Scratch assessment
Solo/pair programmers; girls/boys
Measuring aspects of computational thinking
Learning analytics
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More information
Linda Werner: [email protected]
Shannon Campe: [email protected]
Alice & Scratch --- Friday 3:45pm 302BChildren Learning Computer Science Concepts via Alice Game-Programming.