TY - GEN
T1 - How teachers in different educational systems value central concepts of computer science
AU - Hubwieser, Peter
AU - Zendler, Andreas
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The 16 German states exhibit substantial differences regarding the organization as well as the substantial focus of computer science education at their schools. This empirical study investigates how teachers from two German states with different educational systems assess the value of central concepts of computer science. We asked 120 teachers in each country to complete our questionnaire, received 38 responses and applied a specific split-plot design to evaluate the results. The findings show that the assessments by the two groups differ regarding the content concepts model, system, computer, and information. Additionally, we detected differences in the rating of some individual process concepts (analyzing, classifying, finding relationships, generalizing, comparing, and ordering) in relation to the content concept model. These results are consistent with the differences in the focus of the curricula as well as with the content of the teacher education programs in the two states.
AB - The 16 German states exhibit substantial differences regarding the organization as well as the substantial focus of computer science education at their schools. This empirical study investigates how teachers from two German states with different educational systems assess the value of central concepts of computer science. We asked 120 teachers in each country to complete our questionnaire, received 38 responses and applied a specific split-plot design to evaluate the results. The findings show that the assessments by the two groups differ regarding the content concepts model, system, computer, and information. Additionally, we detected differences in the rating of some individual process concepts (analyzing, classifying, finding relationships, generalizing, comparing, and ordering) in relation to the content concept model. These results are consistent with the differences in the focus of the curricula as well as with the content of the teacher education programs in the two states.
KW - Central concepts
KW - Computer science education
KW - Subject domain knowledge
KW - Teacher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878438086&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2481449.2481464
DO - 10.1145/2481449.2481464
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878438086
SN - 9781450317870
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 62
EP - 69
BT - Proceedings - 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2012
T2 - 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2012
Y2 - 8 November 2012 through 9 November 2012
ER -