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It is a paper-pencil tool examining algorithm and debugging domains, including simple and nested loops, and conditionals. Pilot testing involved 11 preschool teachers and 56 preschoolers, with expert review by 6 university-based specialists. 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The concept, development and assessment of computational thinking have increasingly become the focus of research in recent years. Most of this type of research focuses on older children or adults. Preschool age is a sensitive period when many skills develop intensively, so the development of computational thinking skills can already begin at this age.  \nThe increased interest in this field requires the development of appropriate assessments. Currently, there are only a limited number of computational thinking assessments for preschool children.  \nBased on this shortcoming, an assessment tool, named AlgoPaint Unplugged Computational Thinking Assessment for Preschool, was created addressed for 4-7 years old children. It is a paperpencil-based test, which examines the following computational thinking domains: algorithms and debugging. Regarding computational concepts, simple instructions, simple and nested loops, and conditionals are included in the test. For the preliminary testing, AlgoPaint test was applied by 11 preschool teachers with 56 preschool age children. The test was also evaluated by 6 experts in algorithmic thinking working at universities. Based on the feedback given by the teachers and the experts, and the results of the children, AlgoPaint Computational Thinking Test was revised and completed. The revised version of the test is included in the appendix of the paper.  \nKeywords: computational thinking, preschool, AlgoPaint Computational Thinking Test  \nIntroduction  \nToday's children are born into a world in which smart devices and technology are part of their everyday lives. That is why it is no longer surprising that computational thinking is being investigated by more and more researchers. Although interest in this area has increased, there is not enough research on how to teach and assess computational thinking (Rich et al, 2018), especially for young children (Curumisu, Adams & Lu, 2019) . Computational thinking (CT) is a complex competency, not only focusing on the use of a computer. CT requires “taking an approach to solving problems, designing systems and understanding human behavior that draws on concepts fundamental to computing”(Wing, 2008, 3717.) . As observed in this definition, developing CT doesn’t necessarily require the use of a smart device, computer, it is a competence which can be used in many areas of life and in many careers. For preschool age children Bers (2018, 70.) defined CT as the ability to abstract computational behaviors and identify bugs.  \nThe increased interest in this field highlights the need to develop appropriate assessment tools for all age groups. This is a big challenge, but in recent years there have been more and more attempts to do so. In the last two decades, many assessment tools have been developed to measure computational thinking, but only a few of them focused on young (3-7 years old) children (El-Hamamsy et al., 2022; Marinus et al., 2018; Relkin, 2018; Relkin et al., 2020 Relkin & Bers, 2021; Zapata-Cáceres et al., 2020; Zhang & Wong, 2023) . Two of these tests are using robots for assessment (Marinus et al., 2018; Relkin, 2018) . The tasks with robots require some knowledge about handling and coding the specific robot. The other two tests are focusing on six domains of computational thinking (Bebras Challenge,  \nRelkin & Bers, 2021), from which algorithms are one domain. Regarding the algorithm domain, these tests are using simple algorithms, without if or loop. The other three tests are focusing on the algorithm domain, assessing different control structures, as if, repeat with a given number of times, and repeat while a condition is true (El-Hamamsy et al., 2022; Zapata-Cáceres et al., 2020; Zhang & Wong, 2023) . 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