Estudio sobre diferencias de género en las competencias y las estrategias educativas para el desarrollo del pensamiento computacional

Computational thinking is a competence that should be included in the training of every student of different educational stages, from the lower to the higher stages. However, there are fewer women that choose in their post-secondary education careers related to computer science. Therefore, this article analyzes the main initiatives of teaching the computational thinking, and also the gender gap in computer education. In order to know strategies of computational thinking and the gender differences which were found; it has been made a study about the opinions of teachers, judges, referees and volunteers of the national educational robotics competition FLL (First Lego League), whom was held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 2015. The results indicate that although there are more male presence in the tournament, there are no significant gender differences in the skills related to programming and learning computational thinking, because boys and girls learn and process information fairly.