Experimental research in the development of computational thinking: a systematic mapping of literature in the teaching of computing concepts

• Autor(a) principal: Beleti Junior, Carlos Roberto
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: de Faria Sforni, Marta Sueli
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação em foco
• Texto Completo: https://revista.uemg.br/index.php/educacaoemfoco/article/view/6623
• topic: Educación y Tecnología; Mapeo Sistemático de la Literatura; Pensamiento Computacional; Education and Technology; Systematic Mapping of Literature; Computational Thinking; Educação e Tecnologia; Mapeamento Sistemático de Literatura; Pensamento Computacional

Computational Thinking, as a form of thinking supported by the foundations of Computer Science, has been widely investigated with a view to finding ways to promote it. To identify how experimental research on the development of Computational Thinking in the teaching of Computing concepts has been developed, we conducted a systematic mapping of literature of publications in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. We found that there is no pattern in the format of how experimental investigations are conducted, but they tend to be of short duration and, despite the various subfields within Computer Science, programming has been predominantly used in Computational Thinking development. We concluded that it is necessary to conduct experimental research with a longer duration on the development of this type of thinking, as well as investigations into the didactic foundations of an educational action that can promote it.