Teaching Data Science to Gifted Students: Fostering Computational Thinking

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CSTA Conf2026
Data science has emerged as a core competency in the era of artificial intelligence, and its importance in K–12 CS education continues to grow. However, research on data science instruction for elementary students remains limited. In this session, we present the results of a study designed to measure the impact of a model data science curriculum. The study designed and implemented a 16-session data science curriculum for 20 fourth-grade students enrolled in a university-affiliated software gifted education center in Korea....