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Informatics Education in Italian Secondary Schools

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Carlo Bellettini,

Violetta Lonati,

Dario Malchiodi,

Luisa ZeccaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 14, Issue 2

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2602490

Published: 01 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This 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 not holding an informatics degree, the lack of suitable teaching material and the expectations of pupils and families, who tend to identify informatics with the use of computer applications.

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Informatics Education in Italian Secondary Schools
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ACM Transactions on Computing Education Volume 14, Issue 2

Special Issue on Computing Education in (K-12) Schools

June 2014

180 pages

EISSN:1946-6226

DOI:10.1145/2642651

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Published: 01 June 2014

Accepted: 01 April 2014

Revised: 01 March 2014

Received: 01 March 2013

Published in TOCE Volume 14, Issue 2

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