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RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. How effective is the CT RBT training for teachers conducted at the teacher
education institute?
2. How is the reference framework for CT RBT training?

SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH

Feedback through evaluation for training conducted helps to identify whether the
outcomes meet the objectives of training (Bramley & Newby, 1984). It provides a form
of quality control so that contents, facilities, environments, schedule and facilitator
presentations can be improved for more effective training to be conducted in the future.
Thus, evaluation on the CT RBT training in this research is important to provide
feedback so that better training programmes can be designed, developed and
delivered in the future.

There is a need to have a framework to guide computational thinking
development and assessment since there is a lack of such strategy for CT (Brennan
& Reinseck, 2012). The effort of this research in mapping CT RBT training to a
framework is important as this can be a strategy to guide CT RBT training. This
mapping can help to identify strengths and weaknesses of the training as well as
functionaing as a benchmarking guide. Benchmarking is an objective tool for
measuring quality (Krishnamoorthy & D'Lima, 2014).

METHODOLOGY

A total of 15 RBT teachers were selected to attend four days CT RBT training course
at an IPG in Kuching. The course was conducted from 5.8.2019 to 8.8.2019. Each
participant was provided with a printed training module prepared by MDEC. The
printed module was for training on the use of Micro: bit Controller programmed using
Microsoft Makecode. Handouts for CT concepts and programming using Scratch were
given as softcopy to the participants. The four days course cover the training on the
following topics:

• Basic Computational Thinking Skills (6 hours)
• Scratch Programming & Micro: bit - Micro Controller (18 hours)

The daily slots for the training were shown in Figure 2. The ISO LAM PUS 01-03
evaluation form was distributed to the participants at the end of the course. Data
analysis for the evaluation was also described in this paper.