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Humanities students are often considered to have lower problem solving ability and information application skills. This may be due to the fact that many humanities students receive basic computer education that only teaches word processing or other information software. In this paper, we want to investigate whether university humanities students’ problem-solving ability could be improved through the computational thinking (CT) training. The experiment was divided into 2 phases. The first phase was to investigate whether the students’ problem solving abilities could be affected by the CT education comparing with the training of MS-Office operating skills adopted in the traditional “Introduction to Computers” course. The result of this investigation showed that the experimental group received the CT training had significantly better achievement than the control group in both problem-solving ability and IT application ability.
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Lin, JM., Hong, ZW., Song, ZK., Shen, WW., Cheng, WK. (2021). Improve University Humanities Students’ Problem-Solving Ability Through Computational Thinking Training. In: Huang, YM., Lai, CF., Rocha, T. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_15
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