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Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish

Year 2020, , 343 - 360, 31.08.2020
https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.643709

Abstract

Computational thinking has regained attention of academicians, politicians and educators in recent years. Stakeholders with different perspectives have studied to develop computational thinking skills. It is important to measure whether a concept, skill or knowledge has been developed or not. The aim of this study is to adapt the computational thinking test developed in Spanish to Turkish. For adaptation, the test was first translated into Turkish and evaluated by experts. The test was then translated back to Spanish, and the initial version and the back translated version were compared and then the translation process was completed. The test, which was translated into Turkish, was administered to middle school students and evaluated for item difficulty, item discrimination and internal consistency. As a result of these analyzes, the test, which had 28 items in Spanish, was reduced to 24 items. The scores obtained from the test were evaluated in terms of gender and grade level. The test scores did not show a statistically significant difference in terms of gender. There was no significant difference in (i) fifth and sixth grade students and (ii) seventh and eighth grade students in terms of students’ computational thinking scores. However, a significant difference was found between these two groups (5-6 and 7-8). Computational thinking test can be used by academicians and educators in their studies and practical teaching.

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  • Arnon, I., Cottrill, J., Dubinsky, E., Oktaç, A., Roa Fuentes, S., Trigueros, M., & Weller, K. (2014). APOS theory. A Framework for Research and Curriculum Development in Mathematics Education. New York, NY: Springer.
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  • Brennan, K., & Resnick, M. (2012). New frameworks for studying and assessing the development of computational thinking. Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Büyüköztürk, Ş., Çakmak, E. K., Akgün, Ö. E., Karadeniz, Ş., & Demirel, F. (2017). Bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri. Pegem Atıf İndeksi, 1-360.
  • Çetin, İ. & Berigel , M. (2017). Bilgisayar Bilimi Eğitiminde Kavram ve Kuramlar. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (101-131). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Dubinsky, E. (1991). Reflective abstraction in advanced mathematical thinking. In D. Tall (Ed.), Advanced mathematical thinking (pp. 95–123). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
  • Erümit, A. & Berigel, M. (2018). Programlama dillerinin tarihi ve programlama öğretimi. Y. Gülbahar & H. Karal (Ed.), Kuramdan uygulamaya programlama öğretimi (1-36). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Izu, C., Mirolo, C., Settle, A., Mannila, L., & Stupuriene, G. (2017). Exploring Bebras Tasks Content and Performance: A Multinational Study. Informatics in Education, 16(1), 39-59.
  • Kalelioğlu, F. (2017). Bilgisayarsız Bilgisayar Bilimi (B3) Öğretimi. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (155-178). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Kalelioğlu, F., Gülbahar, Y., & Madran, O. (2015). A snapshot of thefirst imple-mentation of Bebras international informatics contest in Turkey. In A. Brodnik, & J. Vahrenhold (Eds.), Informatics in schools. Curricula, competences, and competitions (pp.131-140). Berna: Springer.
  • Kalelioğlu, F. & Keskinkılıç, F. (2017). Bilgisayar Bilimi Eğitimi için Öğretim Yöntemleri. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (183-206). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Kandemir, C., M. (2017). Metin Tabanlı Programlama. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (183-206). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.Korkmaz, Ö., Çakir, R., & Özden, M. Y. (2017). A validity and reliability study of the Computational Thinking Scales (CTS). Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 558-569.
  • Moreno-Leon, J., & Robles, G. (2015). Dr. Scratch: A web tool to automatically evaluate scratch projects. In Proceedings of the 10th workshop in primary and secondary computing education (pp. 132-133).
  • Özdamar, K. (1999). Paket Programlar ile İstatistiksel Veri Analizi 1. Kaan Kitabevi: Eskişehir.
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  • Román-González, M., Pérez-González, J. C., & Jiménez-Fernández, C. (2017). Which cognitive abilities underlie computational thinking? Criterion validity of the Computational Thinking Test. Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 678-691.
  • Román-González, M. (2016). Código alfabetización y pensamiento computacional en educación primaria y secundaria: validación de un instrumento y evaluación de programas (Yayımlanmamış doktora tezi). Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España).
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  • Üçgül, M. (2017). Eğitsel Robotlar ve Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünme. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (295-317). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Yükseltürk, E. & Altıok, S. (2017). Blok Tabanlı Programlama. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (241-266). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Werner, L., Denner, J., Campe, S., & Kawamoto, D. C. (2012). The fairy performanceassessment: Measuring computational thinking in middle school. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on computer science education (pp.215-220).
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Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünme Testi’nin Türkçeye Uyarlanması

Year 2020, , 343 - 360, 31.08.2020
https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.643709

Abstract

Bilgi işlemsel düşünme son yıllarda akademisyenlerin, ülkelerin ve eğitimcilerin gündemine girmiştir. Bir kavramın, becerinin veya bilginin geliştirilip geliştirilemediğini belirlemek için onun ölçülmesi önemlidir. Bu çalışmanın amacı İspanyolca olarak geliştirilen bilgi işlemsel düşünme testinin Türkçeye uyarlanmasıdır. Uyarlama için öncelikle test Türkçeye çevrilmiştir ve uzmanlar tarafından değerlendirilmiştir. Ardından test yeniden İspanyolcaya çevrilmiştir ve testin ilk hali ve geri çevirisi karşılaştırılıp çeviri işlemi tamamlanmıştır. Türkçeye çevrilen test 602 ortaokul öğrencisine uygulanarak madde güçlüğü, madde ayırt ediciliği ve iç tutarlılık açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Bu analizler sonucunda İspanyolcasında 28 madde bulunan test 24 maddeye düşürülmüştür. Testten elde edilen puanlar cinsiyet ve sınıf seviyesi açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Test puanları cinsiyet açısından istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir farklılaşma göstermemiştir. (i) Beşinci ve altıncı sınıf öğrencileri ve (ii) yedinci ve sekizinci sınıf öğrencileri arasında bilgi işlemsel düşünme açısından istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark bulunmamıştır. Fakat bu iki grup (5-6 ve 7-8) öğrenci arasında anlamlı bir fark tespit edilmiştir. Bilgi işlemsel düşünme testi akademisyenler ve eğitimciler tarafından çalışmalarında ve pratik öğretimleri içerisinde kullanılabilir.

References

  • Arnon, I., Cottrill, J., Dubinsky, E., Oktaç, A., Roa Fuentes, S., Trigueros, M., & Weller, K. (2014). APOS theory. A Framework for Research and Curriculum Development in Mathematics Education. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Guzdial, M. (2008). Education Paving the way for computational thinking. Communications of the ACM, 51(8), 25-27.
  • Brennan, K., & Resnick, M. (2012). New frameworks for studying and assessing the development of computational thinking. Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Büyüköztürk, Ş., Çakmak, E. K., Akgün, Ö. E., Karadeniz, Ş., & Demirel, F. (2017). Bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri. Pegem Atıf İndeksi, 1-360.
  • Çetin, İ. & Berigel , M. (2017). Bilgisayar Bilimi Eğitiminde Kavram ve Kuramlar. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (101-131). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Dubinsky, E. (1991). Reflective abstraction in advanced mathematical thinking. In D. Tall (Ed.), Advanced mathematical thinking (pp. 95–123). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
  • Erümit, A. & Berigel, M. (2018). Programlama dillerinin tarihi ve programlama öğretimi. Y. Gülbahar & H. Karal (Ed.), Kuramdan uygulamaya programlama öğretimi (1-36). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Izu, C., Mirolo, C., Settle, A., Mannila, L., & Stupuriene, G. (2017). Exploring Bebras Tasks Content and Performance: A Multinational Study. Informatics in Education, 16(1), 39-59.
  • Kalelioğlu, F. (2017). Bilgisayarsız Bilgisayar Bilimi (B3) Öğretimi. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (155-178). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Kalelioğlu, F., Gülbahar, Y., & Madran, O. (2015). A snapshot of thefirst imple-mentation of Bebras international informatics contest in Turkey. In A. Brodnik, & J. Vahrenhold (Eds.), Informatics in schools. Curricula, competences, and competitions (pp.131-140). Berna: Springer.
  • Kalelioğlu, F. & Keskinkılıç, F. (2017). Bilgisayar Bilimi Eğitimi için Öğretim Yöntemleri. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (183-206). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Kandemir, C., M. (2017). Metin Tabanlı Programlama. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (183-206). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.Korkmaz, Ö., Çakir, R., & Özden, M. Y. (2017). A validity and reliability study of the Computational Thinking Scales (CTS). Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 558-569.
  • Moreno-Leon, J., & Robles, G. (2015). Dr. Scratch: A web tool to automatically evaluate scratch projects. In Proceedings of the 10th workshop in primary and secondary computing education (pp. 132-133).
  • Özdamar, K. (1999). Paket Programlar ile İstatistiksel Veri Analizi 1. Kaan Kitabevi: Eskişehir.
  • Papert, S. (1993). Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Basic Books.
  • Román-González, M. (2015). Computational thinking test: Design guidelines and content validation. In Proceedings of EDULEARN15 conference (pp. 2436-2444).
  • Román-González, M., Pérez-González, J. C., & Jiménez-Fernández, C. (2017). Which cognitive abilities underlie computational thinking? Criterion validity of the Computational Thinking Test. Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 678-691.
  • Román-González, M. (2016). Código alfabetización y pensamiento computacional en educación primaria y secundaria: validación de un instrumento y evaluación de programas (Yayımlanmamış doktora tezi). Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España).
  • Schneider, G. M., & Gersting, J. (2018). Invitation to computer science. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
  • Üçgül, M. (2017). Eğitsel Robotlar ve Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünme. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (295-317). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Yükseltürk, E. & Altıok, S. (2017). Blok Tabanlı Programlama. Y. Gülbahar (Ed.), Bilgi İşlemsel Düşünmeden Programlamaya (241-266). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
  • Werner, L., Denner, J., Campe, S., & Kawamoto, D. C. (2012). The fairy performanceassessment: Measuring computational thinking in middle school. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on computer science education (pp.215-220).
  • Wing, J. M. (2006). Computational thinking. Communications of the ACM, 49(3), 33-35.
  • Wing, J. M. (2011, Şubat). Research notebook: Computational thinking- what and why? The Link Magazine, 20–23. Erişim adresi https://www.scs.cmu.edu/link
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Primary Language English
Subjects Other Fields of Education
Journal Section Research Articles
Authors

İbrahim Çetin

Tarık Otu This is me

Asuman Oktaç This is me

Publication Date August 31, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020

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APA Çetin, İ., Otu, T., & Oktaç, A. (2020). Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), 11(2), 343-360. https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.643709
AMA Çetin İ, Otu T, Oktaç A. Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT). August 2020;11(2):343-360. doi:10.16949/turkbilmat.643709
Chicago Çetin, İbrahim, Tarık Otu, and Asuman Oktaç. “Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish”. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 11, no. 2 (August 2020): 343-60. https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.643709.
EndNote Çetin İ, Otu T, Oktaç A (August 1, 2020) Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 11 2 343–360.
IEEE İ. Çetin, T. Otu, and A. Oktaç, “Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish”, Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 343–360, 2020, doi: 10.16949/turkbilmat.643709.
ISNAD Çetin, İbrahim et al. “Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish”. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 11/2 (August 2020), 343-360. https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.643709.
JAMA Çetin İ, Otu T, Oktaç A. Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT). 2020;11:343–360.
MLA Çetin, İbrahim et al. “Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish”. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), vol. 11, no. 2, 2020, pp. 343-60, doi:10.16949/turkbilmat.643709.
Vancouver Çetin İ, Otu T, Oktaç A. Adaption of the Computational Thinking Test into Turkish. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT). 2020;11(2):343-60.