Carencias en la evaluación del pensamiento computacional
shortcomings in the evaluation of computational thinking
Abstract
Computational thinking is a competency that benefits problem solving as in computer sciences as in the other disciplines and everyday life. Currently, it is of interest to include computational thinking in the curricula of all educational levels, however, there are shortcomings such as the lack of evaluation tools in real contexts and the nonexistence of application models oriented on each discipline. This essay’s goal is to show the arguments that support these shortcomings. First, we present a discussion about the computational thinking concept. Later, we introduce a common framework used to design evaluations in computer sciences. After, to contextualize the causes of the evaluation’s shortcomings on computational thinking, we compare with a framework used in medicine. The analysis suggests that the shortcomings are caused by the utilization of Bloom’s taxonomy as the framework.
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