Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming

Computational Thinking (CT) is a thought process which utilize computer science concepts to solve problem in the real life. One of the methods to develop CT among the Children is by using visual programming to create computational artifacts such as animation and games. This study collected 50 animat...

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Main Authors: Osmanullrazi, Abdullah, Adzhar, Kamaludin, Nur Shamsiah, Abdul Rahman
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Published: IEEE 2021
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author Osmanullrazi, Abdullah
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Nur Shamsiah, Abdul Rahman
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description Computational Thinking (CT) is a thought process which utilize computer science concepts to solve problem in the real life. One of the methods to develop CT among the Children is by using visual programming to create computational artifacts such as animation and games. This study collected 50 animation and 47 games projects created by the primary school students in standard 6 (12-year-old) from the eight-week lesson using visual programming Scratch. The purpose of the study is to investigate if there is a significant difference between male and female students on CT skills of flow control, logic, data representation, parallelism, synchronization, user interactivity and abstraction. Source code projects were analyzed for CT skills score. Result from Mann-Whitney U test shows the different was not statistically significant between male and female students on CT skills mentioned previously.
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spelling ump-337082022-04-13T07:21:02Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/ Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming Osmanullrazi, Abdullah Adzhar, Kamaludin Nur Shamsiah, Abdul Rahman QA76 Computer software Computational Thinking (CT) is a thought process which utilize computer science concepts to solve problem in the real life. One of the methods to develop CT among the Children is by using visual programming to create computational artifacts such as animation and games. This study collected 50 animation and 47 games projects created by the primary school students in standard 6 (12-year-old) from the eight-week lesson using visual programming Scratch. The purpose of the study is to investigate if there is a significant difference between male and female students on CT skills of flow control, logic, data representation, parallelism, synchronization, user interactivity and abstraction. Source code projects were analyzed for CT skills score. Result from Mann-Whitney U test shows the different was not statistically significant between male and female students on CT skills mentioned previously. IEEE 2021-08 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/1/Gender%20differences%20in%20computational%20thinking%20skills%20among%20Malaysian%E2%80%99s%20.pdf pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/2/Gender%20differences%20in%20computational%20thinking.pdf Osmanullrazi, Abdullah and Adzhar, Kamaludin and Nur Shamsiah, Abdul Rahman (2021) Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming. In: IEEE 2021 International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems and 4th International Conference on Computational Science and Information Management (ICSECS-ICOCSIM) , 24-26 August 2021 , Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia. 655 -660.. ISBN 978-1-6654-1407-4 (Published) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSECS52883.2021.00125
spellingShingle QA76 Computer software
Osmanullrazi, Abdullah
Adzhar, Kamaludin
Nur Shamsiah, Abdul Rahman
Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
title Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
title_full Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
title_fullStr Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
title_full_unstemmed Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
title_short Gender differences in computational thinking skills among Malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
title_sort gender differences in computational thinking skills among malaysian’s primary school students using visual programming
topic QA76 Computer software
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/1/Gender%20differences%20in%20computational%20thinking%20skills%20among%20Malaysian%E2%80%99s%20.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33708/2/Gender%20differences%20in%20computational%20thinking.pdf