Primary Programming: Teachers’ Attitudes and Skills in the Light of Computing Reform

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ojs.cepsj.si/index.php/cepsj/article/view/2110" target="_blank" >https://ojs.cepsj.si/index.php/cepsj/article/view/2110</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.2110" target="_blank" >10.26529/cepsj.2110</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Primary Programming: Teachers’ Attitudes and Skills in the Light of Computing Reform

Original language description

Two global trends that can be observed in computing education all over the world are moving the beginning of teaching computing as a compulsory school subject to primary education and moving from the teaching of user approaches to digital technologies to computer science content. The Czech Republic is currently the scene of such changes within the ongoing reform of informatics education. This paper presents the visions and principles that have served as the foundational framework for the reform initiative. A significant term for the introduction of computing in schools is programming. The key figure for the implementation of the changes is the primary school teacher who has no background in computer science and no experience in the subject as a student. The topic of our inquiry is therefore the attitudes of primary teachers towards teaching programming at the time of the ongoing school reform. The aim of the research is to identify the personal, pedagogical and environmental factors that influence teachers’ attitudes towards teaching programming. We measured programming attitudes using Sun’s Teacher Programming Attitude Scale, while the relationship of these attitudes to teachers’ computational thinking was explored using Bebras Challenge tasks. A survey of primary school teachers revealed a positive attitude towards the teaching of programming, coupled with very good computing skills. The study also found that previous experience in teaching programming is a significant factor in influencing teachers’ positive attitudes towards the subject.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal

ISSN

1855-9719

e-ISSN

2232-2647

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SI - SLOVENIA

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

61-68

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105026879380