Fostering Creative Thinking Skills through Computer Programming: Explicit or Integrated Teaching?

Autor/inn/en	Sendag, Serkan; Yakin, Ilker; Gedik, Nuray
Titel	Fostering Creative Thinking Skills through Computer Programming: Explicit or Integrated Teaching?
Quelle	In: Education and Information Technologies, 28 (2023) 9, S.10819-10838 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sendag, Serkan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-2357
DOI	10.1007/s10639-023-11629-4
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Information Technology; Programming; Computer Science Education; Creative Thinking; Skill Development; Direct Instruction; Integrated Activities; Thinking Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationstechnologie; Programmierung; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Kreatives Denken; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Direct instructional procedues; Direct instructional approach; Unterrichtsverfahren; Integrierender Unterricht; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	Teaching programming skills has attracted a great deal of attention for more than a decade. One potential reason behind this is that the explicit teaching of computer programming can improve higher-order thinking skills, such as creativity. Moreover, whether or not creative programming learning activities, such as the use of creative-thinking-boosting-techniques integrated into programming, can assumedly make an additional contribution compared to explicit programming teaching remains a critical question that has yet to be answered. Therefore, the current study applied an experimental design with a sample of 34 preservice IT teachers to examine whether or not creative programming activities or explicit teaching of programming play a significant role in promoting creative thinking skills. The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Verbal Form was employed to collect the study's data. The findings indicated significant improvements in both explicit teaching and creative programming periods. The results suggest that better creative thinking skills can be improved when the integration of creativity-boosting activities follows the explicit teaching of computer programming into computer programming teaching. The results highlighted the need to integrate creativity-boosting activities into the teaching of computing programming. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01