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Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year
In this world of the digital era, in which we are living, one of the fundamental competences that students must acquire is the competence in Computational Thinking (CT). Although there is no general consensus on a formal definition, there is a general understanding of it as a set of skills and attit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02820 |
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author | Varela, Concepción Rebollar, Carolina García, Olatz Bravo, Eugenio Bilbao, Javier |
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description | In this world of the digital era, in which we are living, one of the fundamental competences that students must acquire is the competence in Computational Thinking (CT). Although there is no general consensus on a formal definition, there is a general understanding of it as a set of skills and attitudes necessary for the resolution, with or without a computer, of problems that may arise in any area of life. Measuring and evaluating which of the CT skills students have acquired is fundamental, and for this purpose, previously validated measuring instruments must be used. In this study, a previously validated instrument is applied to know if the new students in the Engineering Degrees of the University of the Basque Country have the following skills in CT: Critical Thinking, Algorithmic Thinking, Problem Solving, Cooperativity and Creativity. |
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spelling | pubmed-68615722019-11-22 Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year Varela, Concepción Rebollar, Carolina García, Olatz Bravo, Eugenio Bilbao, Javier Heliyon Article In this world of the digital era, in which we are living, one of the fundamental competences that students must acquire is the competence in Computational Thinking (CT). Although there is no general consensus on a formal definition, there is a general understanding of it as a set of skills and attitudes necessary for the resolution, with or without a computer, of problems that may arise in any area of life. Measuring and evaluating which of the CT skills students have acquired is fundamental, and for this purpose, previously validated measuring instruments must be used. In this study, a previously validated instrument is applied to know if the new students in the Engineering Degrees of the University of the Basque Country have the following skills in CT: Critical Thinking, Algorithmic Thinking, Problem Solving, Cooperativity and Creativity. Elsevier 2019-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6861572/ /pubmed/31763478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02820 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Varela, Concepción Rebollar, Carolina García, Olatz Bravo, Eugenio Bilbao, Javier Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
title | Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
title_full | Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
title_fullStr | Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
title_full_unstemmed | Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
title_short | Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
title_sort | skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02820 |
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