Fig 1.
Sample item of the Computational Thinking Test (CTt).
Fig 2.
Practice item of the SPOT test.
Fig 3.
Practice items of the SAM test.
Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of CTt and adaptive performance tests (SPOT, SAM, and NoVo).
Fig 4.
The distribution of CTt scores in men and women.
Fig 5.
The distribution of SAM and SPOT scores in men and women.
Table 2.
Tests of gender differences in CTt, SPOT, SAM, and NoVo scores.
Table 3.
Correlations between CTt, SAM, SPOT, NoVo, and gender.
Fig 6.
Conceptual diagram of the research model.
Notes. **: p < .01; ***: p < .001; ns: Not statistically significant. SPOT: Visuo-Spatial Ability; SAM: Fluid intelligence (Scrambled Adaptive Matrices); CTt: Computational Thinking test performance. Paths from the covariant (C) to the mediators are omitted to promote readability (each path not stat. sig.).
Table 4.
Regression parameters and summary of the research model.
Table 5.
Tests of indirect effects of gender on CTt.