Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia; Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia.
Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia; Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2023 Nov;235:105738. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105738. Epub 2023 Jul 6.
The healthy development of cognitive functions, including executive functions, has been shown to depend mainly on the experiences and learning opportunities of people, especially during childhood. Over the past few years, researchers have been studying the impacts of diverse types of interventions on children's cognitive development in which computational thinking programs are a recent field. This pilot study evaluated the effect of computational thinking training based on the "Programming for Children" program on the executive functions of children aged 10 and 11 years: working memory, inhibition, and planning (N = 30). The results showed that children in the experimental group improved on tests of visuospatial working memory, cognitive inhibition, and sequential planning compared with the control group. However, tests of verbal working memory, memory strategy, and visual spatial planning did not show any observed changes. Although this was an exploratory study, and its findings should be interpreted cautiously due to the small sample size, the findings support the relevance and feasibility of conducting similar larger studies with larger samples.
认知功能（包括执行功能）的健康发展主要取决于人类的经验和学习机会，尤其是在儿童时期。在过去的几年中，研究人员一直在研究各种类型的干预措施对儿童认知发展的影响，其中计算思维课程是一个新兴领域。这项初步研究评估了基于“儿童编程”项目的计算思维训练对 10 至 11 岁儿童执行功能的影响：工作记忆、抑制和计划（N=30）。结果表明，实验组在视觉空间工作记忆、认知抑制和顺序规划测试中比对照组表现出了更好的提升。然而，言语工作记忆、记忆策略和视觉空间规划测试并没有显示出任何明显的变化。尽管这是一项探索性研究，由于样本量较小，其结果应谨慎解释，但研究结果支持了开展类似更大规模、更大样本的研究的相关性和可行性。
