Exploring the Differences in the Cultivation of Computational Thinking in Primary through Meta-analysis based on the Perspective of the Contrast between the East and the West

With the advent of the era of intelligent education, the cultivation and development of computational thinking is the key in talent training. However, most of the existing researches focus on the design of computational thinking teaching methods and models on a small scale, and lack the test of the training effect. Moreover, these effects in existing research are also mixed and fuzzed, and there are even greater differences between the East and the West. Therefore, in order to be able to analyze the effects of computational thinking teaching in depth, meta-analysis can be used to extract the factors that influence the effects of computational thinking in the related research on computational thinking training in the primary school stage in the East and the West. Through the calculation of experimental effect size, the effects of different studies are merged, so as to present the true effect of computational thinking training. A total of 30 qualified literatures were filtered, and 278 effect values were extracted from them. Based on these, the difference in training effects between the East and the West can be calculated to further analyze the development differences of computational thinking in different regions and teaching methods, and then point out the direction for the improvement of computational thinking training methods and models between different regions. The main value of the research is promoting the innovative development of computational thinking training within the globe.