SimpliCT: A Digital Tutor Designed to Aid in the Education of Computational Thinking
Authors
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2024
Submitted on
2024-06-06
Pages
14
Abstract
Computational Thinking is a concept that involves solving problems, designing systems and understanding human behaviour, by drawing on fundamental Computer Science concepts. We believe it has the potential to empower individuals in their ability to solve everyday problems and improve the academic competencies. In this project, we seek to find out how a digital tutor can assist in tutoring computational thinking. We develop a chatbot called SimpliCT, using a GPT model provided by OpenAI. We have fine-tuned the model with 68 training examples. We conduct a comparative study to the determine the user experience and effectiveness of SimpliCT. We found the user experience of SimpliCT to be acceptable with possibility for improvement. We are not able to determine the effectiveness, but our study indicates that new learners are able to obtain knowledge about Computational Thinking.
Keywords
Documents