Computational thinking in educational policy – the relationship between goals and practices

Andreas Lindenskov Tamborg; Liv Nøhr; Emil Bøgh  Løkkegaard; Morten Misfeldt

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31726-2_21

Computational thinking in educational policy – the relationship between goals and practices

Andreas Lindenskov Tamborg, Liv Nøhr, Emil Bøgh Løkkegaard, Morten Misfeldt

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In this paper, we study the relationship between the content and goals of curriculum revisions toward the integration of computational thinking (CT) in compulsory schools in Denmark, Sweden, and England. Our analyses build on data consisting of a combination of official documents such as new curricula, white papers, and implementation strategies and interviews of experts who are either highly knowledgeable about or were involved in developing the curriculum revisions in these three countries. Our study found that there are strong connections between the CT content data practices and goal competitiveness in England. In Sweden, we found that the relationship between data practices and the goal of competitiveness is strongest. In Denmark, we found that the CT content codes related to data practices, modeling and simulation practices, and computational problem solving practices were all strongly represented, but all were weakly related to policy goals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Quantitative Ethnography
Editors	Crina Damşa, Amanda Barany
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2023
Pages	299-213
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-31725-5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-31726-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31726-2_21
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography - Duration: 15 Oct 2022 → 19 Oct 2022 https://www.icqe22.org/

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Conference	Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography
Period	15/10/2022 → 19/10/2022
Internet address	https://www.icqe22.org/

Series	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1785
ISSN	1865-0929

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Computational thinking in educational policy – the relationship between goals and practices. / Tamborg, Andreas Lindenskov ; Nøhr, Liv; Løkkegaard, Emil Bøgh ; Misfeldt, Morten.

Advances in Quantitative Ethnography. ed. / Crina Damşa; Amanda Barany. Cham : Springer, 2023. p. 299-213 (Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1785).

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Tamborg, AL , Nøhr, L, Løkkegaard, EB & Misfeldt, M 2023, Computational thinking in educational policy – the relationship between goals and practices. in C Damşa & A Barany (eds), Advances in Quantitative Ethnography. Springer, Cham, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1785, pp. 299-213, Third International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, 15/10/2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31726-2_21

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