An investigation into computational thinking in professional educational environments

Abstract

Although there is a growing interest in the scientific community in advancing computational thinking, there is a scarcity of studies in this area within the scope of professional education. This article presents the results of an investigation whose objective was to carry out a comparative analysis of the cognitive skills developed by students enrolled in professional IT courses and courses in other areas, with the aim of identifying the impact of Computational Thinking on the development of these skills. carried out is quantitative and qualitative in nature, qualitative methods analyzed students' computational thinking skills, while quantitative methods collected numerical data for specific assessments. To analyze the collected data, it was decided to use a mathematical formula to determine the score. The results point to the verification of a hypothesis that a room of students in a given class would be more prominent due to its curriculum.