Eight-year-olds' conceptions of computer viruses: A quantitative study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11320/19:10401849
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3361721.3361726" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1145/3361721.3361726</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3361721.3361726" target="_blank" >10.1145/3361721.3361726</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Eight-year-olds' conceptions of computer viruses: A quantitative study
Original language description
Many eight-year-olds use mobile devices. These devices can be attacked by computer viruses, with possible, serious consequences for device owners. Eight-year-olds do not always learn in schools about the concepts of computer viruses and protection against them, but they may still have everyday conceptions about these concepts: acquired outside schools. However, little is known about whether or not children have these everyday conceptions, and if so, how elaborate they are. This study explores these conceptions among 58 second graders from the Czech Republic, who were not taught about computer viruses in school. The children were interviewed, their correct conceptions were quantitatively scored, and their incorrect notions were noted. The results showed that children had few incorrect notions; however, their understanding was generally low and patchy. Approx. 1/3 of the children knew about the existence of software updates, but - and this is especially worrying - almost none of them knew about antiviruses. On a practical level, the results support the idea that the topic of computer viruses should be taught early at the primary education level. On a theoretical level, within cognitive constructivism frameworks, the results indicate that children's understanding has to be developed from scratch rather than by means of reconstructing and/or elaborating already held conceptions (because children appear to bring few prior conceptions to school, neither correct nor incorrect ones). (C) 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
ISBN
978-1-4503-7704-1
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Number of pages
7
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Publisher name
ACM
Place of publication
New York, NY, USA
Event location
Glasgow
Event date
Oct 23, 2019
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
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