Bebras--A Sustainable Community Building Model for the Concept Based Learning of Informatics and Computational Thinking.

V Dagiene, G Stupuriene - Informatics in education, 2016‏ - ceeol.com
As an international informatics contest, or challenge, Bebras has started the second decade
of its existence. The contest attracts more and more countries every year, recently there have …

Informatics education in Italian secondary schools

C Bellettini, V Lonati, D Malchiodi, M Monga… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014‏ - dl.acm.org
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 …

Promoting computational thinking skills: would you use this Bebras task?

A Calcagni, V Lonati, D Malchiodi, M Monga… - Informatics in Schools …, 2017‏ - Springer
Bebras, an international challenge organized on an annual basis in several countries (50 in
2016), has the goal of promoting informatics and computational thinking through attractive …

How challenging are Bebras tasks? An IRT analysis based on the performance of Italian students

C Bellettini, V Lonati, D Malchiodi, M Monga… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
This 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 …

Constructionist attempts at supporting the learning of computer programming: A survey

M Lodi, D Malchiodi, M Monga… - … in Informatics: An …, 2019‏ - inria.hal.science
Although programming is often seen as a key element of constructionist approaches, the
research on learning to program through a constructionist strategy is somewhat limited …

Is coding the way to go?

V Lonati, D Malchiodi, M Monga… - Informatics in Schools …, 2015‏ - Springer
Recently, several actions aimed at introducing informatics concepts to young students have
been proposed. Among these, the “Hour of Code” initiative addresses a wide audience in …

Extracurricular activities for improving the perception of informatics in secondary schools

C Bellettini, V Lonati, D Malchiodi, M Monga… - Informatics in Schools …, 2014‏ - Springer
In order to introduce informatic concepts to students of Italian secondary schools, we
devised a number of interactive workshops conceived for pupils aged 10–17. Each …

[PDF][PDF] The role of contests in changing informatics education: A local view

G Audrito, GB Demo, E Giovannetti - Olympiads in Informatics, 2012‏ - academia.edu
Changing the teaching of informatics in secondary (and primary) education is in many
countries difficult to achieve, owing to several reasons: the natural tendency of institutions …

design and evaluation of competitive programming platforms for computer science education

D Ostuni - 2024‏ - iris.univr.it
Competitive programming is the art of solving well-known algorithmic problems in a limited
amount of time. It is a fun and challenging activity that requires and enhances problem …

Exploring the processing of formatted texts by a kynesthetic approach

C Bellettini, M Monga, V Lonati, A Morpurgo… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2012‏ - dl.acm.org
We describe a teaching activity about word-processors we proposed to a group of 25 pupils
in 9th/10th grades of an Italian secondary school. While the pupils had some familiarity with …