Assessment of Computational Thinking Notions in Secondary School

Javier Bilbao, Eugenio Bravo, Olatz García, Concepción Varela, Carolina Rebollar · Baltic Journal of Modern Computing · 2017

New technological developments, the hyperconnectivity and globalization of the economy are raising important opportunities and challenges to the economy.The labour market must also address these opportunities and challenges, to evolve and accommodate future workers and businesses.The introduction of digital technologies in sectors of the economy allows devices and systems collaborate with each other and with other systems allowing to modify the products, processes and business models.The digitization of society and the economy poses challenges and creates opportunities for all sectors must adapt their processes, products and business models.Educational system cannot be left out of this future and new models like Computational Thinking (CT) can help achieve and better prepare future citizens.But when new skills and techniques such as CT are applied, it is necessary to evaluate them.In this paper a model for evaluating the skills and attitudes of CT for subjects of secondary education is presented.

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