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LITERATURE REVIEW
A scoping review of the literature on computational thinking in education in the Arab world
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Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an, JORDAN
Publication date: 2024-11-06
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2024;20(11):em2530
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
This study aims to identify the nature and the extent of recent research studies on computational
thinking in the Arab educational systems. The analyzed studies were gathered from English and
Arabic educational sources. The selected publications were peer-reviewed journal articles over the
past ten years that dealt with computational thinking in education in the Arab world. The selected
studies were analyzed based on language, publication date, educational setting, educational
discipline, site, primary purpose, research method, sample, and adopted definition of
computational thinking. Twenty-eight research articles were selected for the investigation. The
analysis revealed that the majority of the examined research studies were published in the Arabic
language after the year 2020 in K-12 educational settings. The majority of the examined studies
were conducted in programming and computer science in a few Arab countries. In addition, the
majority of the examined studies focused on how to develop students’ computational thinking
levels using various interventions. The majority of the studies employed a limited number of
participants and used different forms of experimental research designs. The studies adopted
different forms of the definition of computational thinking. Based on the findings,
recommendations for future studies were presented.
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