تطوير منهج البرمجة في ضوء الحوسبة الإبداعية وفاعليته في تنمية مهارات البرمجة والتفكير الحاسوبي لدى طالبات الصف السابع الأساسي
The current research aimed to develop the curriculum of programming with respect to creative computing and to investigate its effectiveness in developing programming skills and computational thinking among seventh-grade female students. The research developed a list of creative computing standards and then analyzed the Palestinian curriculum of programming and compared it with the creative curriculum of computing of the "Scratch 3.0" programming language, evaluated it, and developed the Palestinian curriculum with respect to creative computing. A teacher’s guide and a student’s workbook were also prepared. In addition, a tool for evaluating programming skills (product evaluation card) was developed and three tools to evaluate computational thinking (testing Computational thinking concepts - a note card for computational practices - a trend scale for computational perspectives) were developed to measure the effectiveness of the developed curriculum. The research used the descriptive and the experimental approach of two groups (experimental and control) consisted of (46) students in each group from Abu Tammam Preparatory School in North Gaza. The results revealed the high effectiveness of the developed curriculum in developing programming skills and computational thinking according to Blake's modified gain ratio (3.19, 2.65) respectively. The research recommends the adoption of the developed curriculum to teach Scratch 3.0, the adoption of creative computing to teach programming and computational thinking skills in the faculties of engineering and information technology in Palestinian and Arab universities, the establishment of centers of creative computing in Palestinian universities, the development of a curriculum of computing, and not just programming, and the introduction of a specialization (Creative Computing at Education) in the faculties of education in Palestinian universities. The research also recommends the establishment of a general framework for teaching computing from kindergarten to the twelfth grade in Palestine, as done in many countries, the inclusion of computational thinking for all subjects, and the qualification of primary school teachers with computational thinking. (Author’s abstract)