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- research-articleMarch 2024
To Be Or Not To Be . . . An Algorithm: The Notion According to Students and Teachers
SIGCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1March 2024, Pages 102–108https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630950We study how students and teachers conceptualize the notion of 'algorithm', a fundamental concept in computer science and computer science curricula. We analyze the work produced by CS students and teachers during a workshop conducted repeatedly over ...
- ArticleSeptember 2022
How is Two Better Than One? An Observational Study on the Impact of Working in Pairs When Solving Bebras Tasks
Informatics in Schools. A Step Beyond Digital EducationSep 2022, Pages 54–65https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15851-3_5AbstractEvery year the Bebras challenge proposes small tasks to students, based on CS concepts. In Italy, in 2021 for the first time, it was possible to choose whether to participate in the challenge individually or in teams of two students. The team size ...
- ArticleNovember 2019
Situated Learning with Bebras Tasklets
Informatics in Schools. New Ideas in School InformaticsNov 2019, Pages 225–239https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33759-9_18AbstractA Bebras short task, a tasklet, is designed to provide a source for exploring a computational thinking concept: at the end of the contest it could be used as a starting point to delve deeper into a computing topic. In this paper we report an ...
- research-articleJune 2015
How Challenging are Bebras Tasks?: An IRT Analysis Based on the Performance of Italian Students
ITiCSE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science EducationJune 2015, Pages 27–32https://doi.org/10.1145/2729094.2742603This paper analyses the results of the 2014 edition of the Italian Bebras/Kangourou contest, exploiting the Item Response Theory statistical methodology in order to infer the difficulty of each of the proposed tasks starting from the scores attained by ...
- research-articleJune 2014
Informatics Education in Italian Secondary Schools
- Carlo Bellettini,
- Violetta Lonati,
- Dario Malchiodi,
- Mattia Monga,
- Anna Morpurgo,
- Mauro Torelli,
- Luisa Zecca
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 14, Issue 2Article No.: 15, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/2602490This article describes the state of informatics education in the Italian secondary schools, highlighting how the learning objectives set up by the Ministry of Education are difficult to meet, due to the fact that the subject is often taught by teachers ...
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- ArticleOctober 2011
What's the fun in informatics? working to capture children and teachers into the pleasure of computing
ISSEP'11: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Informatics in Schools: situation, Evolution and PerspectivesOctober 2011, Pages 213–224https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_19The importance of computer science education in secondary, and even primary school, has been pointed out by many authors. But too often pupils only experience ICT, both at home and at school, and confuse it with computer science. We organized a game-...