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ERIC Number: EJ1455355
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1648-5831
EISSN: EISSN-2335-8971
Functional Data Science for Secondary-School Students
Paul Biberstein; Thomas Castleman; Luming Chen; Shriram Krishnamurthi
Informatics in Education, v23 n4 p723-734 2024
CODAP is a widely-used programming environment for secondary school data science. Its direct-manipulation-based design offers many advantages to learners, especially younger students. Unfortunately, these same advantages can become a liability when it comes to repeating operations consistently, replaying operations (for reproducibility), and also for learning abstraction. In response, we have extended CODAP with CODAP Transformers, which add a notion of functions to CODAP. These provide a gentle introduction to reuse and abstraction in the data science context. We present a critique of CODAP that justifies our extension, describe the extension, and showcase some novel operations. Our extension has been integrated into the CODAP codebase, and is now part of the standard CODAP tool. It is already in use by the Bootstrap curriculum.
Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Akademjos str. 4, Vilnius LT 08663 Lithuania. Tel: +37-5-21-09300; Fax: +37-5-27-29209; e-mail: info@mii.vu.lt; Web site: https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 2031252; SaTC2208731