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Eliciting Student Scratch Script Understandings via Scratch Charades

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Diana Franklin,

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SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 780 - 786

https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366911

Published: 26 February 2020 Publication History

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With many school districts nationwide integrating Computer Science (CS) and Computational Thinking (CT) instruction at the K-8 level, it is crucial researchers closely inspect the relationship between program expression and student understandings. In this study, we propose and report on our use of Scratch Charades, a game in which students act out Scratch scripts while others build them. The purpose of Scratch Charades is to familiarize students with scripts and blocks without the cognitive overhead of the complex user interface. However, in this study, we also used it to elicit student understandings about Scratch blocks and scripts to design mnemonics to help students debug their code. We propose two building and/or debugging strategies based on our observations.

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