A global snapshot of computer science education in K-12 schools

Peter Hubwieser, Michail N. Giannakos, Marc Berges, Torsten Brinda, Ira Diethelm, Johannes Magenheim, Yogendra Pal, Jana Jackova, Egle Jasute

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Abstract

In two special issues of the ACM journal "Transactions on Computing Education" (TOCE), 14 extensive case studies about the various situations of Computer Science Education (CSE) in K-12 schools in 12 countries (respectively states) were collected. During the work at the ITiCSE 2015, we have performed a deductive qualitative text analysis on these case studies in order to extract the most useful information. As a category system, we applied some selected categories of the Darmstadt Model that was developed by the working group "Computer Science/Informatics in Secondary Schools" at the ITiCSE 2011. Based on the coding results, we summarized information about the different fields of Computing Education at schools, the intended goals and competencies, the taught content, the applied programming languages and tools and the different forms of assessment and teacher education. Despite the limitations of the analyzed articles, representing just snapshots of complex situations from the specific viewpoint of the respective authors, we were able to collect some interesting results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationITiCSE-WGP 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE Conference on Working Group Reports
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages65-83
Number of pages19
ISBN (Electronic)9781450341462
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jul 2015
Event2015 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference, ITiCSE-WGP 2015 - Vilnius, Lithuania
Duration: 4 Jul 20158 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameITiCSE-WGP 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE Conference on Working Group Reports

Conference

Conference2015 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference, ITiCSE-WGP 2015
Country/TerritoryLithuania
CityVilnius
Period4/07/158/07/15

Keywords

  • Competencies
  • Computing education
  • Teacher education

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