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Evaluating young children's creative coding: rubric development and testing for ScratchJr projects.

Apittha Unahalekhaka¹, Marina Umaschi Bers¹

¹Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, Medford, MA USA.

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Summary

This study developed and tested a rubric for evaluating early childhood coding projects using ScratchJr. The validated rubric reliably measures changes in project quality over time for young learners.

Keywords:

Computer Science Early Childhood Education Elementary Education Project Assessments ScratchJr

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Area of Science:

Educational Technology
Computer Science Education
Child Development

Background:

Project-based assessment is common for evaluating student coding projects.
A gap exists in developmentally appropriate, rigorously tested rubrics for early childhood coding.
ScratchJr is a popular app for early childhood creative coding.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and test a project-based rubric for evaluating early childhood ScratchJr creations.
To assess the rubric's validity, reliability, and ability to measure changes in project quality.

Main Methods:

Development of the ScratchJr Project Rubric through defined phases.
Field testing of the rubric on 228 ScratchJr projects from 1st and 2nd graders (n=87, aged 6-7).
Evaluation of projects across three distinct time points.

Main Results:

The ScratchJr Project Rubric demonstrated strong validity and reliability.
The rubric effectively measured changes in project quality over time.
The rubric is suitable for assessing young children's creative coding projects.

Conclusions:

The developed rubric is a valid and reliable tool for evaluating early childhood ScratchJr projects.
The rubric's framework can be adapted for other creative coding platforms for children.
This work addresses the need for appropriate assessment tools in early computer science education.