Fomento del pensamiento computacional a través de la resolución de problemas en estudiantes de ingeniería de reciente ingreso en una universidad pública de la región andina del Perú

• Published in: RISTI : Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação 2022-12 (48), p.23-40
• Main Authors: Paucar-Curasma, Ronald, Villalba-Condori, Klinge Orlando, Viterbo, Sinche Crispín Fernando, Nolan, Jara Jara, Florentino, Unsihuay Tovar Roberto, David, Rondon
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Subjects: Algorithms; Colleges & universities; Critical thinking; Decision making; Engineering education; Problem solving; Statistical tests; Students
• ISSN: 1646-9895
• DOI: 10.17013/risti.48.23-40

In the article, the authors propose technological projects to develop computational thinking following the phases of problem-solving: understanding the problem, elaboration of the plan, execution of the plan and revision of the solution. During the execution of the projects, the students carried out activities, such as the elaboration of algorithms, programming of the Arduino board and sensors from a friendly and playful interface such as the mBlock; as well as the debugging of programs until obtaining the expected results; These activities carried out by the students had an impact on cognitive processes (reasoning, decision making, understanding of the environment, logic, etc.), practices and technological perspectives. For the analysis of the relationship between computational thinking skills and problem solving, the Pearson correlation statistical test was used through SPSS software. En recientes estudios, el pensamiento computacional (PC) está tomando mayor interés en todos los niveles del sector educativo, como apoyo fundamental en el fortalecimiento de habilidades en la resolución de problemas en los estudiantes, más aún en estudiantes con limitadas competencias en razonamiento matemático y lógica (Molina et al., 2020; Paucar-Curasma et al., 2021).