El pensamiento computacional y la codificación en la educación primaria: la productividad científica en SCOPUS Computational thinking and coding in primary education: scientific productivity on SCOPUS

Abstract

In recent decades, computational thinking had a basic role in education and in the regulatory chain of many countries, also receiving great attention from various international organizations that have expressly requested its promotion starting from school education. The present study analyzes scientific productivity on SCOPUS about computational thinking and its diffusion in schools, with specific reference to the K-12 context. The study has been extended to 2006, when Jeannette Wing published the primary article on computational thinking, starting a body of research and projects on the subject, so that to date, in February 2020, there are 1850 citations of its publication on SCOPUS. The data support a global picture on the evolution of the phenomenon, showing an increase of interest, the main promoting countries, the sources, the authors and the most cited works, allowing a good reference for the scientific research sector on the computational thinking phenomenon in education, a theme that is more relevant and significant today than ever before. The present study also represents a tool for reflection on the need to educate the young people of the twenty-first century to computational thinking with the aim of making them achieve the specific skills that today's work market requires.