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Gender and Abstract Thinking Disposition Difference Analyses of Visual Diagram Structuring for Computational Thinking Ability  

Park, Chan Jung (제주대학교 컴퓨터교육과)
Hyun, Jung Suk (제주대학교 경영정보학과)
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The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education / v.21, no.3, 2018 , pp. 11-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
One major change in the 2015 revised national curriculum is that computational thinking ability is becoming an essential competency for students. Computational thinking is divided into abstraction, automation, and creative convergence in the curriculum for secondary schools' Information subject. And, the curriculum contains problem solving and programming area. Among the components of computational thinking, data representation emphasizes the ability to structure data and information for problem solving of learners. Pre-service teachers of Information subject at secondary schools also learn how to structure information through diagramming. There are differences in the ability to structure diagrams among students, but the studies on learning methods that help students develop their structuring abilities have rarely been performed. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the differences of abstract thinking disposition and gender perspective among college students. As a result, female students had more concrete thinking disposition than male students. Also, there were gender differences according to the characteristics of diagrams. Differences in abstract thinking disposition also made a difference in structuring diagrams. It is useful for achieving the education purpose of improving computational thinking ability by finding out the differences in thinking tendency between males and females and finding the education method that can complement them.
Keywords
Computational Thinking Ability; Abstract Thinking; Diagramming; Visual Literacy; Gender Difference;
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