Analyze your Scratch projects with Dr. Scratch and assess your Computational Thinking skills
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In this paper we present the feature of Dr. Scratch that allows to automatically assessing the Computational Thinking skills of Scratch projects. The paper reviews similar initiatives, like Hairball, and investigates the literature with proposals for assessment of Scratch projects that we have studied and remixed in order to develop the Computational Thinking analysis. Then it introduces the various aspects that Dr. Scratch takes into consideration to compute a Computational Thinking score for a Scratch project and presents some preliminary findings of the analysis of over 100 investigated Scratch projects. Finally, future directions and limitations are presented and discussed.
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