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Nijenhuis-Voogt, Jacqueline; Bayram-Jacobs, Durdane; Meijer, Paulien C.; Barendsen, Erik – Computer Science Education, 2023
Background and Context: Computing education is expanding, while the teaching of algorithms is less well studied. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching algorithms. Method: We conducted semi-structured interviews with seven computer science (CS) teachers in upper secondary…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Secondary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Computer Science Education
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Alkhalifa, Amal Khalifa; Devlin, Marie; Alkhattabi, Mona – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2022
Aim/Purpose: To encourage students' engagement in peer assessments and provide students with better-quality feedback, this paper describes a technique for author-reviewer matching in peer assessment systems -- a Balanced Allocation algorithm. Background: Peer assessment concerns evaluating the work of colleagues and providing feedback on their…
Descriptors: Authors, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Algorithms
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Michael Ridley – College & Research Libraries, 2024
As part of a broader information literacy agenda, academic libraries are interested in advancing algorithmic literacy. Folk theories of algorithmic decision-making systems, such as recommender systems, can provide insights into designing and delivering enhanced algorithmic literacy initiatives. Users of the Spotify music recommendation systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Artificial Intelligence
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Huo, Rongrong – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
In our investigation of university students' knowledge about real numbers in relation to computer algebra systems (CAS) and how it could be developed in view of their future activity as teachers, we used a computer algorithm as a case to explore the relationship between CAS and the knowledge of real numbers as decimal representations. Our work was…
Descriptors: Numbers, Computer Science Education, Knowledge Level, Algorithms
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Bubica, Nikolina; Boljat, Ivica – Informatics in Education, 2022
The new Croatian Informatics curriculum, which introduces computational thinking concepts into learning outcomes has been put into practice. A computational thinking assessment model reflecting the learning outcomes of the Croatian curriculum was created using an evidence-centered design approach. The possibility of assessing the computational…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Information Science Education, Computer Science Education
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Assink, Egbert M. H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
In a large-scale field experiment aimed at improving spelling instruction in Dutch schools, the effectiveness of a newly developed algorithmic teaching method was compared with the conventionally and commonly used analogy approach. The analogy group showed comparatively little progress in learning results. (Seventy-five test items are appended).…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Analogy, Dutch, Foreign Countries