The Effect of Coding Courses on the Cognitive Abilities and Problem-Solving Skills of Preschool Children

Autor/inn/en	Çiftci, Serdar; Bildiren, Ahmet
Titel	The Effect of Coding Courses on the Cognitive Abilities and Problem-Solving Skills of Preschool Children
Quelle	In: Computer Science Education, 30 (2020) 1, S.3-21 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Çiftci, Serdar) ORCID (Bildiren, Ahmet)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0899 3408
DOI	10.1080/08993408.2019.1696169
Schlagwörter	Outcomes of Education; Coding; Cognitive Ability; Problem Solving; Preschool Children; Programming; Critical Thinking; Computer Science Education; Preschool Education; Foreign Countries; Intelligence Tests; Nonverbal Ability; Turkey; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Codierung; Programmierung; Denkfähigkeit; Problemlösen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Kritisches Denken; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Ausland; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Türkei
Abstract	Background and Context: There are studies which indicate that computer programming supports high-level abilities for everyone such as creative thinking, questioning, problem solving and critical thinking which are considered within the scope of 21st-century abilities. Objective: The current experimental study was carried out to put forth the impact on the problem solving and cognitive abilities of computer programming course applied on 4-5-year-old preschool children. Method: The study was arranged according to a pretest-posttest control group experiment model. Findings: According to the results, there is an increase in the non-verbal cognitive abilities of children in the experiment group with no statistically significant difference in their problem-solving skills. Implications: Our findings give an evidence about the effects of a coding course on preschool children through the use of two validated tests for problem-solving skills and cognitive skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01