Nataša Grgurina
ABSTRACT
The term Computational Thinking (CT) was introduced in 2006 by J. M. Wing to indicate a set of analytical skills regarded necessary for the youth in the modern information society [11]. We describe an ongoing research project on CT skills in the Netherlands, focusing on the computer science (CS) course in the upper grades of secondary education. In the first phase of the project we explore the occurrence and nature of CT aspects in the CS teaching materials and policy documents as well as teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). In this poster we describe the research design and the method of the first phase of the project and we report and discuss the results obtained so far, focusing on the teachers' perspective.
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