From computational thinking to creative thinking: an analysis of their relationship in high school students An analysis of their relationship in high school students

Abstract

The objective of the article is to determine which dimensions of computational thinking are related to the dimensions of creative thinking. The methodology is quantitative with a descriptive non-experimental cross-sectional design. Use two instruments, one that measures computational thinking through the Directions, Loops, Conditionals, and Functions dimensions and the other that measures creative thinking through the Originality, Fluency, Elaboration, and Flexibility dimensions. The sample was made up of N = 275 students from 7 educational studies in the Diguillin province, Ñuble region, Chile. The related results that computational and creative thinking are related to each other. The loops and conditional dimensions are severely related to all dimensions of creative thinking. Of these dimensions, the ones that receive the greatest influence from the muscles and conditionals are the elaboration, which follows fluidity, originality and flexibility. In conclusion, loops and conditionals are the essential dimensions for the dimensions of creative thinking.