COMPUTATIONAL THINKING TEST: DESIGN GUIDELINES AND CONTENT VALIDATION
@inproceedings{Gonzlez2015COMPUTATIONALTT, title={COMPUTATIONAL THINKING TEST: DESIGN GUIDELINES AND CONTENT VALIDATION}, author={M. V. Rom{\'a}n Gonz{\'a}lez}, year={2015} }
We live in a society full of digital and programmable objects. In this context, being code-literate involves an inescapable requirement for any citizen of the XXI century. We believe that a person is code-literate when the ability to read and write in the language of computers and to think computationally has been developed. So it is not surprising that computational thinking (CT) is being located at the focus of educational innovation as a set of problem solving skills to be acquired by new…
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