„What Is Inside a Computer?“: Preconceptions About Computer Principles in 6-9-Graders
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11320/23:10476594
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3605468.3609777" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3605468.3609777</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3605468.3609777" target="_blank" >10.1145/3605468.3609777</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
„What Is Inside a Computer?“: Preconceptions About Computer Principles in 6-9-Graders
Original language description
The new computer science curriculum in Czechia for grades 6 to 9 accentuates, among others, the topic of computer principles, i.e., how computers work internally. For various reasons, there is a lack of teaching materials in Czechia that deal with this topic and support teachers in their teaching. To create quality materials, as a first step, we wanted to discover children's preconceptions about computer principles. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 53 children about how computers work, what parts they comprise of, and how these parts communicate and work with each other. After completing an inductive thematic analysis, we found around 260 preconceptions. Based on their occurrence we performed a non-hierarchical cluster analysis and identified three groups of participants according to their level of knowledge (i.e., experts, who are able to understand the majority of abstract concepts, moderate, who understand some abstract concepts, and naive, who do not understand the vast majority of abstract concepts). This poster presents preliminary findings from our study.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-20771S" target="_blank" >GA22-20771S: Internet4Kids – Learning about the internet: a conceptual change perspective</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
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 18th WIPSCE Conference in primary and secondary computing education research
ISBN
979-8-4007-0851-0
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
(2023)
Publisher name
Association for Computing Machinery
Place of publication
New York
Event location
Cambridge
Event date
Sep 27, 2023
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
001125967700028