Attitudes Towards Computer Science in Secondary Education: Evaluation of an Introductory Course

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Attitudes Towards Computer Science in Secondary Education: Evaluation of an Introductory Course
Original language description
Computer science (CS) is not being taught at Czech grammar schools (15-18 years old students). In our effort to change that, we developed and piloted a basic CS course. It introduces the fundamental ideas of CS comprehensively and in relation to existing subjects and real world applications. In this paper we describe the course program briefly and present the part of evaluation that focuses on students' point of view. We assessed how they perceive the subject of CS in context of other school subjects using a questionnaire with a qualitative and a quantitative part. It turns out that our approach to CS is considered intellectually very demanding, yet this does not seem to affect other features (interest, usefulness) too negatively. CS does not show extreme values in other measured attributes in comparison to other science subjects.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Informatics in Schools: Improvement of Informatics Knowledge and Perception. 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, Proceedings
ISBN
978-3-319-46746-7
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Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
53-64
Publisher name
Springer International Publishing
Place of publication
Münster
Event location
Münster, Německo
Event date
Oct 13, 2016
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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