Computational thinking

Computational thinking and tinkering: Exploration of an early childhood robotics curriculum

Marina Umaschi Bers, Louise Flannery, Elizabeth R. Kazakoff, Amanda Sullivan

Citations: 933 • 2013

Advancing students’ computational thinking skills through educational robotics: A study on age and gender relevant differences

Soumela Atmatzidou, Stavros Demetriadis

Citations: 609 • 2015

Assessing elementary students’ computational thinking in everyday reasoning and robotics programming

Guanhua Chen, Ji Shen, Lauren Barth-Cohen, Shiyan Jiang, Xiaoting Huang, Moataz Eltoukhy

Citations: 412 • 2017

Developing young children's computational thinking with educational robotics: An interaction effect between gender and scaffolding strategy

Charoula Angeli, Nicos Valanides

Citations: 383 • 2019

Computational thinking education: Issues and challenges

Charoula Angeli, Michail N. Giannakos

Citations: 330 • 2019

Coding as a playground: Promoting positive learning experiences in childhood classrooms

Marina Umaschi Bers, Carina Soledad González González, Ma Belén Armas–Torres

Citations: 329 • 2019

Robotics and science literacy: Thinking skills, science process skills and systems understanding

Florence R. Sullivan

Citations: 278 • 2008

Effect of Robotics on Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy, Science Learning, and Computational Thinking

Kamini Jaipal-Jamani, Charoula Angeli

Citations: 266 • 2016

Dancing robots: integrating art, music, and robotics in Singapore’s early childhood centers

Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers

Citations: 263 • 2017

Using Robotics and Game Design to Enhance Children’s Self-Efficacy, STEM Attitudes, and Computational Thinking Skills

Jacqueline Leonard, Alan Buss, Ruben Gamboa, Monica Mitchell, Olatokunbo S. Fashola, Tarcia Hubert, Sultan M. Almughyirah

Citations: 263 • 2016

Robotics and computational thinking in primary school

Christina Chalmers

Citations: 257 • 2018

PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Early Childhood Education

Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Lauren Oh, Cynthia Breazeal

Citations: 242 • 2019

The TangibleK Robotics Program: Applied Computational Thinking for Young Children.

Marina Umaschi Bers

Citations: 227 • 2010

Exploring the computational thinking effects in pre-university education

Francisco José García‐Peñalvo, António José Mendes

Citations: 225 • 2017

Coding as another language: a pedagogical approach for teaching computer science in early childhood

Marina Umaschi Bers

Citations: 216 • 2019

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Morgane Chevalier, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti, Francesco Mondada

Citations: 201 • 2020

Effects of robotics programming on the computational thinking and creativity of elementary school students

Jiyae Noh, Jeongmin Lee

Citations: 198 • 2019

Learning to code and the acquisition of computational thinking by young children

Emily Relkin, Laura de Ruiter, Marina Umaschi Bers

Citations: 188 • 2021

Integrating Computational Thinking in STEM Education: A Literature Review

Changzhao Wang, Ji Shen, Jie Chao

Citations: 182 • 2021

Comparing Virtual and Physical Robotics Environments for Supporting Complex Systems and Computational Thinking

Matthew Berland, Uri Wilensky

Citations: 182 • 2015