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ArticleEducation and information technologies2023

Predicting pre-service teachers' computational thinking skills using machine learning classifiers.

Hao-Yue Jin, Maria Cutumisu

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Hao-Yue JinCentre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, 6-102 Education Centre North, Edmonton, T6G 2G5 Canada.
Maria CutumisuCentre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, 6-102 Education Centre North, Edmonton, T6G 2G5 Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2475-9647

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Natural variation in C. elegans responses to environmental pollutionF32ES034954 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI LEUTHNER, TESS CATHERINE · 2023 to 2024
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NIEHS NIH HHS F32 ES034954
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational thinking (CT) skills of pre-service teachers have been explored extensively, but the effectiveness of CT training has yielded mixed results in previous studies. Thus, it is necessary to identify patterns in the relationships between predictors of CT and CT skills to further support CT development. This study developed an online CT training environment as well as compared and contrasted the predictive capacity of four supervised machine learning algorithms in classifying the CT skills of pre-service teachers using log data and survey data. First, the results show that Decision Tree outperformed K-Nearest Neighbors, Logistic Regression, and Naive Bayes in predicting pre-service teachers' CT skills. Second, the participants' time spent on CT training, prior CT skills, and perceptions of difficulty regarding the learning content were the top three important predictors in this model.

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ClassifierComputational ThinkingDecision TreeEducational Data MiningK-Nearest NeighborsLogistic RegressionMachine LearningNaive BayesPre-service Teachers

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PMID36846494
PMCPMC9939859

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