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Which cognitive abilities underlie computational thinking? Criterion validity of the Computational Thinking Test

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In this paper, a Computational Thinking Test (CTt) is administered on a sample of 1,251 Spanish students from 5th to 10th grade, so its descriptive statistics and reliability are reported in this paper.
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This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 447 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Convergent thinking & Computational thinking.

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Computing for Other Disciplines

Mark Guzdial
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Higher Education Pedagogy

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Relationships between Computational Thinking Skills, Ways of Thinking and Demographic Variables: A Structural Equation Modeling

TL;DR: In this article, the extent at which students' computational thinking skills are explained by certain variables has been examined and Structural Equation Model was employed for building a model in order to establish whether the variables predict students' CT skills or not.
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Skills in computational thinking of engineering students of the first school year.

TL;DR: In this study, a previously validated instrument is applied to know if the new students in the Engineering Degrees of the University of the Basque Country have the following skills in CT: Critical Thinking, Algorithmic Thinking, Problem Solving, Cooperativity and Creativity.
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Is computational thinking related with TPAB?

The paper does not mention any correlation between computational thinking and TPAB.