practice questions

Question 1

The primary way CT is integrated into the K-12 curriculum is by

Answer 1

Learning About and Learning With Technology

Question 2

According to Jeannette Wing, computational thinking is a useful tool in learning:

Answer 2

Any subject that involves problem solving.

Question 3

Operationalization is the process of defining a fuzzy _______ so as to make it clearly distinguishable or measurable, and to understand it in terms of ________ observations.

Answer 3

concept, empirical

Question 4

Which one of the following was not a core concept of CT identified in class lecture:
Decomposition
Scaffolding
Pattern Recognition
Algorithm Design
Abstraction

Answer 4

Scaffolding

Question 5

which AT: a student with a reading disability related to decoding

Answer 5

text to speech

Question 6

which AT: a student with limited spelling skills or who is a phonetic or inventive speller

Answer 6

word prediction

Question 7

which AT: a student who has limited fine motor skills, or has repetitive strain injuries limiting their use of conventional writing tools

Answer 7

speech recognition

Question 8

a student who is struggling with the organization of material they are reading or writing

Answer 8

visual thinking tools

Question 9

Carefully selecting the qualities we care about and ignoring the rest of the details is the key to:

Answer 9

Abstraction

Question 10

What are the three basic building blocks that make up most of the algorithms encountered in the context of K-12 Computational Thinking (CT) learning, according to Grover and Pea (2017)?

Answer 10

sequence, selection and repetition