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Title: The Effectiveness of an Accessible Computing Curriculum
There has been a limited number of studies in which a computing curriculum is designed and developed for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and there has been no study to test the effectiveness of an accessible computing curriculum for students with ASD. Therefore, the objectives of this study are 1) to implement an accessible computing curriculum at an inner-city school for seventh-grade students with ASD, and 2) evaluate the effectiveness of the accessible curriculum in improving students with ASDs’ learning of computational thinking concepts (CTCs) (sequences, loops, parallelism, conditionals, operators, and data) and their development of fluency in computational thinking practices (CTPs) (experimenting, iterating, testing, debugging, reusing and remixing, abstracting, and modularizing) by comparing two groups of twenty-two students; one group taught utilizing the adjusted curriculum and the other utilizing the original curriculum. Students' CTCs were measured by analyzing both groups' pretest and posttest scores, and their CTPs were measured by their artifact-based interview scores.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2031427
PAR ID:
10350183
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Langran, E.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
Page Range / eLocation ID:
12-17
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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