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Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences, and Competitions

8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 28 - October 1, 2015, Proceedings

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
  2. Surprising Computer Science

    • Tim Bell
    Pages 1-11
  3. Robotics Activities–Is the Investment Worthwhile?

    • Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy, Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari
    Pages 22-31
  4. Dimensions of Programming Knowledge

    • Andreas Mühling, Peter Hubwieser, Marc Berges
    Pages 32-44
  5. Defining Proficiency Levels of High School Students in Computer Science by an Empirical Task Analysis Results of the MoKoM Project

    • Jonas Neugebauer, Johannes Magenheim, Laura Ohrndorf, Niclas Schaper, Sigrid Schubert
    Pages 45-56
  6. Olympiad in Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics

    • Athit Maytarttanakhon, Vasiliy Akimushkin, Sergei Pozdniakov
    Pages 94-105
  7. CS Unplugged: Experiences and Extensions

    • Irena Demšar, Janez Demšar
    Pages 106-117
  8. Computing at School in Sweden – Experiences from Introducing Computer Science within Existing Subjects

    • Fredrik Heintz, Linda Mannila, Karin Nygårds, Peter Parnes, Björn Regnell
    Pages 118-130
  9. A Snapshot of the First Implementation of Bebras International Informatics Contest in Turkey

    • Filiz Kalelioğlu, Yasemin Gülbahar, Orçun Madran
    Pages 131-140
  10. Introducing a New Computer Science Curriculum for All School Levels in Poland

    • Maciej M. Sysło, Anna Beata Kwiatkowska
    Pages 141-154
  11. Analyzing the Twitter Data Stream Using the Snap! Learning Environment

    • Andreas Grillenberger, Ralf Romeike
    Pages 155-164
  12. Is Coding the Way to Go?

    • Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo
    Pages 165-174
  13. Visual Literacy in Introductory Informatics Problems

    • Françoise Tort, Béatrice Drot-Delange
    Pages 175-182
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 183-183

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September/October 2015. The 14 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The focus of the conference was on following topics: sustainable education in informatics for pupils of all ages; connecting informatics lessons to the students’ everyday lives; teacher education in informatics; and research on informatics in schools (empirical/qualitative/quantitative/theory building/research methods/comparative studies/transferability of methods and results from other disciplines).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Science, Univ. of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer & Information, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Andrej Brodnik

  • Institut für Informatik, WWU Münster, Münster, Germany

    Jan Vahrenhold

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences, and Competitions

  • Book Subtitle: 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 28 - October 1, 2015, Proceedings

  • Editors: Andrej Brodnik, Jan Vahrenhold

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25396-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25395-4Published: 12 November 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25396-1Published: 23 September 2015

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 183

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computers and Education, Science Education, Computers and Society, Personal Computing, Learning & Instruction

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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