Work-in-progress—Developing an Evidence-Centered Model for Computational Thinking in Virtual Worlds with Children with Autism

Abstract

This work-in-progress paper reports on the establishment of preliminary reliability for a domain-agnostic evidence-centered assessment model to measure computational thinking (CT) in an online virtual world. Preliminary reliability was established between two researchers through manually coding 800 minutes of recorded learning sessions and over 350 minutes of consultation. Participants were three adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Findings indicate an acceptable level of reliability between the two coders, opening the way to more extensive application of the model in future studies.