Can Computational Thinking Predict Academic Performance?

Performance in Computational Thinking freshman courses can predict the student future academic success. We concluded that is statistical difference in the overall students' GPA based on their CT grades with over 99.9% confidence level.

What is the best predictor of academic success?

Professor Sophie von Stumm's study finds that parents' socioeconomic status and children's inherited DNA differences are powerful predictors of educational achievement.

What are the goals of computational thinking in education?

Representing data through abstractions such as models and simulations. Automating solutions through algorithmic thinking (a series of ordered steps) Identifying, analyzing, and implementing possible solutions with the goal of achieving the most efficient and effective combination of steps and resources.