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Title: Assessing middle school student computational thinking in an immersive game environment
This session will highlight innovations in assessing K-12 computational thinking (CT). As an emerging construct, the definition of CT is generally characterized as the thinking processes involved in formulating problems and their solutions in a form that can be effectively carried out by an information-processing agent (Wing, 2006). The thinking skills involved in this process include abstraction, decomposition, evaluation, pattern recognition, logic, and algorithm design (Grover & Pea, 2017). This session brings together researchers representing four innovative approaches to assessing CT, each of which provides teachers with useful information to guide instruction. Each presentation will describe the operational definition of CT for the assessment, development and validation work, and how teachers use assessment results to guide K-12 instruction.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1933848
PAR ID:
10656511
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Publisher / Repository:
National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME)
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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