A Systematic Review of Computational Thinking Approach for Programming Education in Higher Education Institutions

Agbo, Friday Joseph; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday; Suhonen, Jarkko; Adewumi, Sunday E.

doi:10.1145/3364510.3364521

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“…VR technology provides an opportunity to develop a state-of-the-art smart learning environment with a high level of interaction, engagement, and motivation for an enhanced learning experience [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. This study refers to computer science (CS) education as the art and science involved in learning and teaching computer science, including computing, algorithmic and computational thinking [9]. For example, the science behind curriculum design, pedagogical approach, and instructional tools and techniques educators adopt to support computer science teaching and learning.…”

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Application of Virtual Reality in Computer Science Education: A Systemic Review Based on Bibliometric and Content Analysis Methods

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This study investigated the role of virtual reality (VR) in computer science (CS) education over the last 10 years by conducting a bibliometric and content analysis of articles related to the use of VR in CS education. A total of 971 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences were collected from Web of Science and Scopus databases to conduct the bibliometric analysis. Furthermore, content analysis was conducted on 39 articles that met the inclusion criteria. This study demonstrates that VR research for CS education was faring well around 2011 but witnessed low production output between the years 2013 and 2016. However, scholars have increased their contribution in this field recently, starting from the year 2017. This study also revealed prolific scholars contributing to the field. It provides insightful information regarding research hotspots in VR that have emerged recently, which can be further explored to enhance CS education. In addition, the quantitative method remains the most preferred research method, while the questionnaire was the most used data collection technique. Moreover, descriptive analysis was primarily used in studies on VR in CS education. The study concludes that even though scholars are leveraging VR to advance CS education, more effort needs to be made by stakeholders across countries and institutions. In addition, a more rigorous methodological approach needs to be employed in future studies to provide more evidence-based research output. Our future study would investigate the pedagogy, content, and context of studies on VR in CS education.

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“…We have divided the articles into four different types of purpose: general, specific, student group and teacher directed. In the specific type, we find nine different goals: Blended learning [75], collaborative work [76], computational thinking [77], Collaborative learning with computer support [78], Intelligent programming tutors [79], MIT App Inventor [80], Robotics [81], Serious programming games [82] and Self-regulation of learning [83]. The papers aimed at students relate to a specific audience: blind [84] and novice [85,86], for the generality of students [72] or directed to the anxiety of students [87].…”

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Teaching and Learning to Program: Umbrella Review of Introductory Programming in Higher Education

Sobral

2021

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Introductory programming courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees are critical to student success throughout the students’ academic and professional route but have traditional failure and dropout rates. The number of publications and reviews on the subject is growing, so we realize the need to prepare an umbrella review, or review of reviews, to group previous studies and extract more comprehensive and ambitious results. Based on the databases ACM, Google Scholar, IEEE, SCOPUS and Web of Science libraries, a formal search was created that resulted in 21 reviews on programming fundamentals in higher education context. Results include bibliometric information on the CS1 reviews, in the context of higher education (namely annual evolution, number and information on authors, types and sources of information, countries of affiliation, languages, keywords and most cited articles), the purpose of the reviews and research questions, methods (namely search strategy, databases used, eligibility criteria) and results (number of records and tables or divisions were made to catalog the articles). We present a taxonomy with four different types of purpose: general, specific, student group and teacher directed. We found very interesting catalogs that can serve as a tool for future work, whether by researchers in the field or by authors who intend to carry out reviews related to introduction to programming, especially in the context of higher education.

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“…We believe our research is an important addition to the field of CT education. For example, our review includes just six papers also included in the review by Agbo et al [1]. It would be interesting to look more in-depth at the interventions and evaluations described in the final selection of papers.…”

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“…Few overview studies are available that present evidence for the effectiveness of interventions used to teach CT in higher education; literature reviews often focus on primary and secondary education [25,62]. Recently, Agbo et al [1] did provide an overview of interventions in higher education. However, this study does not offer an inventory of CT interventions aimed at a broad audience, but focuses on programming education.…”

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Computational Thinking Interventions in Higher Education

Jong

Jeuring

2020

Koli Calling '20: Proceedings of the 20th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

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A Systematic Review of Computational Thinking Approach for Programming Education in Higher Education Institutions

Cited by 60 publications

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Application of Virtual Reality in Computer Science Education: A Systemic Review Based on Bibliometric and Content Analysis Methods

Application of Virtual Reality in Computer Science Education: A Systemic Review Based on Bibliometric and Content Analysis Methods

Teaching and Learning to Program: Umbrella Review of Introductory Programming in Higher Education

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