Aplicação de um teste de pensamento computacional para estudantes dos cursos de computação a partir de uma versão em tradução livre

Abstract

Computational Thinking can be defined as the ability to plan solutions to problems using concepts that are linked to Computing. This study, carried out in the form of descriptive research, intends to carry out a free translation of the Computational Thinking Scale test instrument, which proposes a Computational Thinking Scale. This scale consists of 29 questions divided into 5 Computational Thinking skills: Creativity, Algorithmic Thinking, Cooperativity, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. In addition to performing this free translation, we also went through the phase of collecting and analyzing the data obtained, and thus going through these three to achieve our goal of knowing and understanding all the phases that are part of an adaptation of a scale. After the translation, we carried out a data collection with 70 students from the Degree in Computer Science and Information Systems at the Federal University of Paraíba. As a result, we point out that all those students who participated have skills of a high level in most of the five skills that we deal with here in this work, with emphasis on the Creativity and Cooperativity skills.