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Kim, ChanMin; Vasconcelos, Lucas; Belland, Brian R.; Umutlu, Duygu; Gleasman, Cory – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
It is critical to teach all learners to program and think through programming. But to do so requires that early childhood teacher candidates learn to teach computer science. This in turn requires novel pedagogy that can both help such teachers learn the needed skills, but also provide a model for their future teaching. In this study, we examined…
Descriptors: Programming, Error Correction, Student Behavior, Early Childhood Teachers
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Kim, ChanMin; Yuan, Jiangmei; Vasconcelos, Lucas; Shin, Minyoung; Hill, Roger B. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
In this study, we investigated the debugging process that early childhood preservice teachers used during block-based programing. Its purpose was to provide insights into how to prepare early childhood teachers to integrate computer science into instruction. This study reports the types of errors that early childhood preservice teachers commonly…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Kim, ChanMin; Belland, Brian R.; Baabdullah, Afaf; Lee, Eunseo; Dinç, Emre; Zhang, Anna Y. – AERA Open, 2021
Tinkering is often viewed as arbitrary practice that should be avoided. However, tinkering can be performed as part of a sound reasoning process. In this ethnomethodological study, we investigated tinkering as a reasoning process that construes logical inferences. This is a new asset-based approach that can be applied in computer science…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Inferences
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Belland, Brian R.; Kim, ChanMin; Zhang, Anna Y.; Baabdullah, Afaf A.; Lee, Eunseo – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: This study indicates that supporting debugging processes is a strong method to improve debugging outcome quality among preservice, early childhood education (ECE) teachers. Background: Central to preparing ECE teachers to teach computer science is helping them learn to debug. Little is known about how ECE teachers' motivation and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Predictor Variables, Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers
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Kim, ChanMin; Dinç, Emre; Lee, Eunseo; Baabdullah, Afaf; Zhang, Anna Y.; Belland, Brian R. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Analogical reasoning is considered to be a critical cognitive skill in programming. However, it has been rarely studied in a block-based programming context, especially involving both virtual and physical objects. In this multi-case study, we examined how novice programming learners majoring in early childhood education used analogical reasoning…
Descriptors: Robotics, Programming, Novices, Thinking Skills