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Measuring students’ computer science knowledge in the first two years of secondary grammar school in Hungary. (English) Zbl 1247.97034

Pop, Horia F. (ed.) et al., 8th joint conference on mathematics and computer science, MaCS 2010, Komárno, Slovakia, July 14–17, 2010. Selected papers. Győr: NOVADAT (ISBN 978-963-9056-38-1/pbk). 283-296 (2011).
Summary: The students can enter higher education after high school or vocational school. The learning material is the same in computer science education, but what the students in high school learn in the 9th grade, those in the vocational school learn it in the 9–10th grades. The students have to be same knowledge level at the end of secondary grammar school, if they did not choose the special training of this subject. The author wants to analyse the computer science knowledge in the 9th–10th grades, in order to see the difference in informatics skills of students from different types of school. Why is this important? The same learning material in these grades will give the same results in knowledge level, so this was my starting hypothesis. An analysis of informatics skills by types of school in secondary grammar schools was made with the help of a web based informatics test. After composing an on-line test on the base of the national curriculum the author analysed how effectively students of different grades can answer questions dealing with different subjects. From different towns of Hungary over 60 teachers used the test to see the knowledge level of more than 1000 students having answered these questions. Significance level was 5% through the analysis. Significant divergence by types of school was not found in the 9th grade and just in the topics word processing and spreadsheet calculation was found a weak or middle weak connection between types of school and knowledge level showing the hypothesis being correct. As a second result of this analysis some differences between the taught material and that of the national curriculum are found.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1222.00037].

MSC:

97P10 Comprehensive works on computer science (educational aspects)
97C40 Intelligence and aptitudes (aspects of mathematics education)
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