Is My Game OK Dr. Scratch?: Exploring Programming and Computational Thinking Development via Metrics in Student-Designed Serious Games for STEM
Is My Game OK Dr. Scratch?: Exploring Programming and Computational Thinking Development via Metrics in Student-Designed Serious Games for STEM
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Dr. Scratch 我的游戏还好吗?:通过学生设计的 STEM 严肃游戏中的指标探索编程和计算思维发展
DOI:
10.1145/3311927.3323152
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
C. Harteveld
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作者:
G. M. Troiano;Sam Snodgrass;Erinç Argimak;G. Robles;Gillian Smith;Michael P. Cassidy;Eli Tucker;G. Puttick;C. Harteveld
Computational thinking (CT) is key to digital literacy and helps develop problem-solving skills, which are fundamental in modern school. As game design shows potential for teaching CT, metrics like Dr. Scratch emerge that help scholars systematically assess the CT of student-designed games, particularly with Scratch. Compared to other CT metrics, Dr. Scratch scores the CT of Scratch projects automatically and can be used to describe CT development. However, previous research using Dr. Scratch summatively assessed CT, but did not look at CT development. We use Dr. Scratch to assess the CT development of Scratch games designed by 8th-grade students in STEM curricula. We show how CT proficiency in student-designed games develops differently in each CT dimension, where parallelism, synchronization, and logic develop proficiently, while developing abstraction seems hard. We discuss insights into game-based CT development for STEM, and suggest improvements for metric-based CT assessment.
DOI:
10.1145/3102071.3106352
发表时间:
2017
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Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
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作者:
Rowe, Elizabeth;Asbell-Clarke, Jodi;Gasca, Santiago;Cunningham, Kathryn
通讯作者:
Cunningham, Kathryn
影响因子:
11.7
作者:
Shute, V. J.;Sun, C.;Asbell-Clarke, J.
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Asbell-Clarke, J.