After playing Factory Craft, middle school students showed no statistically significant overall gain in computational thinking competency¶

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q2 i? Overall CT competency scores did not change significantly from pretest to posttest after gameplay. → Yanjun Pan 2024

Evidence¶

Yanjun Pan 2024¶

Yanjun Pan, Elizabeth L. Adams, Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller, Eric C. Larson, Corey Clark. (2024). Enhancing middle school students' computational thinking competency through game-based learning. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10400-x

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One-group pretest-posttest study of 31 middle school students in a summer camp; CT competency measured with NAEP-released items aligned to CSTA standards. The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test found the overall difference "not statistically significant, z = -1.59, p = .111"; medians rose from 17.0 to 19.0 descriptively.

"The overall difference in students' computational thinking competency was not statistically significant, z = -1.59, p = .111. The median CT score was 17.0 in the pretest and 19.0 in the posttest."

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