ACADEMIA Letters Computational thinking: the road to success in education Elisa Martínez-García, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Nowadays the education system has been changing on account of a few countries in which Computational Thinking (CT) has become a paramount element that every citizen has to de- velop and must be carried out since early years. Looking at the results on the last three editions of PISA It’s shocking that the top 3 coun- tries are always from the Asian continent (China, Singapore, Japan). One of the main dif- ferences between their education system and that of the other countries is that they teach CT since kindergarten. So it seems that teaching CT could be one of the clues in order to achieve school success. It has been proven that CT improves logical-mathematical skills, reasoning, problem solv- ing, as well as academic performance (Korkmaz, 2016; Psycharis y Kallia, 2017). Also, Scherer, Siddiq & Sánchez (2018) added that favors creative thinking and Wong & Cheung (2020) show other areas of knowledge that would be boosted. Academia Letters, November 2021 Corresponding Author: Elisa Martínez-García, emg9708@gmail.com Citation: Martínez-García, E. (2021). Computational thinking: the road to success in education. Academia Letters, Article 3973. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3973. 1 ©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0