@ARTICLE{8894360,

  author={L. {Echeverría} and R. {Cobos} and M. {Morales}},
  journal={IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje}, 
 title={Improving the Students Computational Thinking Skills With Collaborative Learning Techniques}, 
  year={2019},
  volume={14},
  number={4},
  pages={196-206},
  abstract={In this paper we present a STEM education initiative. This initiative involves an improved learning approach by means of the implementation of collaborative learning techniques. The proposed approach promotes computational thinking skills in a group manner to improve the learning of geometry. Two case studies were performed with primary school children in the fourth grade at the Comfacor School (Montería-Colombia). The aim of these studies was to analyse the effects of the improved approach in three aspects: the children' motivation, satisfaction and performance. The obtained results provide evidence that the learning of geometry was enhanced thanks to the proposed approach implemented based on a computational thinking strategy.},
  keywords={computer aided instruction;geometry;groupware;mathematics computing;STEM;students computational thinking skills;collaborative learning;STEM education;primary school children;Comfacor School;geometry learning;Moodle-G;Geometry;Tools;Programming profession;Education;Collaborative work;Computational thinking skills;Moodle-G;pair-learning of geometry;collaborative learning techniques},
  doi={10.1109/RITA.2019.2952299},
  ISSN={1932-8540},
  month={Nov},}