Abstract:

Today’s dramatic change of diverse activities and policies on computing education has its root in the prediction that talents equipped with creative computing competence will determine the competitiveness of a nation in the future. From this point of view, we developed the computational thinking-based creative problem solving (CT-CPS) instructional model in our previous study, on which students can develop their computational thinking ability in the context of the creative problem solving process. This study is a follow-up study on the real world application of our instructional model. In this study, we first conducted a lesson plan based on the CT-CPS instructional model and then applied it to elementary informatics gifted students. After the experiment, we compared creative problem solving ability through pre-post test comparison and drew implications for possibilities of our instructional model.

Keywords:

Computing Education, Computational Thinking, Creative Problem Solving.