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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2335-8971</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU_2024_1_16</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2024.16</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Perceptions of Primary School Teachers on Interdisciplinary Computational Thinking Skills Training</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Çimşir</surname>
            <given-names>Serap</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:serapcimsir@gmail.com">serapcimsir@gmail.com</email>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">MoNE Mehmet Akif Ersoy Primary School, Istanbul, Turkey</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kalelioğlu</surname>
            <given-names>Filiz</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:filizk@baskent.edu.tr">filizk@baskent.edu.tr</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">Baskent University, Faculty of Education, Department of Informatics, Ankara, Turkey</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Gülbahar</surname>
            <given-names>Yasemin</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:gulbahar@ankara.edu.tr">gulbahar@ankara.edu.tr</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_002">Ankara University, Faculty of Education Sciences, Department of Informatics, Ankara, Turkey</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>23</volume>
	  <issue>3</issue>
	  <fpage>507</fpage>
	  <lpage>524</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Vilnius University</copyright-holder>
        <license license-type="open-access">
          <license-p>Open access article under the CC BY license.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>This study aims to examine the impact of interdisciplinary computational thinking (CT) skills training on primary school teachers’ perceptions of CT skills. The sample of the study consisted of 30 primary school teachers in Istanbul. In this study, where quantitative and qualitative methods were used together, qualitative data were obtained from the teacher identification form. Quantitative data were obtained from the scale for CT skills. After the pre-test was applied to the study group, “CT Skills Training” was applied. During the training, the basic concepts of CT skills and the subskills were covered theoretically and practically. From the quantitative data, the education applied was determined to have had a positive effect on the primary school teachers' perceptions of CT skills. From the qualitative data, it was determined that the participants had a positive opinion about the applied training and thought that they gained skills related to CT.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>primary school teachers</kwd>
        <kwd>computational thinking</kwd>
        <kwd>teacher training</kwd>
        <kwd>thinking skills</kwd>
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