Participants’ Perception of Tasks in an Informatics Contest

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Participants’ Perception of Tasks in an Informatics Contest

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Participants’ Perception of Tasks in an Informatics Contest

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Informatics in Schools. Engaging Learners in Computational Thinking. ISSEP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12518

ISBN

978-3-030-63211-3

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

55-65

Počet stran knihy

233

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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