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Computational Thinking Development in AI Agent Creation_A Mixed-Methods Study

Gaowei Chen, Haiyang Xin, Lingyun Huang, Qiannan Niu, Shuang Li, Yimeng Sun

Students with moderate initial computational thinking levels show the largest gains from AI agent creation workshops.

arxiv:2605.14330 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.CY

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Notably, students with moderate initial CT levels demonstrated substantially greater gains than both high-CT and low-CT peers, revealing an Optimal Development Zone effect (eta squared = 0.55).

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That the pre-post assessments and behavioral logs validly isolate computational thinking development from workshop-specific factors such as platform novelty, instructor effects, or student motivation without additional controls or validation data.

C3one line summary

Pre-high school students with moderate initial computational thinking skills gained the most from an AI agent creation workshop, exhibiting an Optimal Development Zone effect.

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[1] Carnegie Mellon University, https://link.cs.cmu.edu/article.php?a=600, last ac-cessed 2026/03/26 2026

[2] Communications of the ACM 49(3), 33–35 (2006) 2006 · doi:10.1145/1118178.1118215

[3] The Computer Journal 55(7), 832–835 (2012) 2012 · doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxs074

[4] Educational Research Review 22, 142–158 (2017) 2017 · doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2017.09.003

[5] Educational Researcher 42(1), 38–43 (2013) 2013 · doi:10.3102/0013189x12463051

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arxiv: 2605.14330 · arxiv_version: 2605.14330v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14330 · pith_short_12: JFPK5J4PE7CC · pith_short_16: JFPK5J4PE7CCHTEH · pith_short_8: JFPK5J4P

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