Participants’ Perception of Tasks in an Informatics Contest
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0_5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0_5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0_5" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-63212-0_5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Participants’ Perception of Tasks in an Informatics Contest
Original language description
Bebras is a contest organized for schools to promote computational thinking and new tasks are developed for it every year. The contest is held online in over 50 countries around the world and its results provide a great deal of information regarding difficulty levels of particular tasks and factors influencing participants’ success in the contest. Our paper brings an analysis of such hard data in relation to statements of those participants who expressed their opinion on the difficulty of particular tasks and whose statements could be matched with their actual academic performance in the contest. Questionnaires were voluntarily completed by contestants participating in the Senior category (for the oldest participants aged over 16) from the Czech Republic. Statistical analysis of contest results and perceived task difficulty provided new findings. There is no relationship between the proportion of participants with wrong answers to tasks and participants’ subjective perception of task difficulty. Subjective difficulty is more aptly expressed in terms of the proportion of participants who did not answer the task. The contest was perceived as being easier by those participants who achieved higher scores in it. Male participants demonstrate a higher level of self-esteem in terms of IT skills than female participants. However, female participants’ self-perceptions of their IT skills are slightly more accurate than males’. Results presented in the article could help the authors of the contest to improve compilation of contest tasks and have them included in the Informatics curriculum.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Informatics in Schools. Engaging Learners in Computational Thinking. ISSEP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12518
ISBN
978-3-030-63211-3
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
55-65
Number of pages of the book
233
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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