What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science

Ansgar Fehnker

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15629-8_9

What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science

Ansgar Fehnker^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

Computer science education in secondary schools has transformed in the last decade, both in content and status. Whereas, initially the subject focused mostly on digital skills – if it was taught at all – different institutions and countries have adopted teaching and examination plans that introduce computer science as a science.

Even before the adoption of computer science as a regular subject in schools, individual researchers and academics created content to be used in schools. One such example is the model checking unit developed by Vaandrager et al. in the 2000s. While these activities are not aimed to give a complete view of computer science, they can serve as a proxy to determine which topics researchers consider important and suitable for secondary school.

This paper will focus on secondary school computer science in the UK, the Netherlands, and the state North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It will map the content of examination or teaching plans to a common classification by the scientific community – the ACM subject classification. The comparison reveals choices made by the different countries. We furthermore compare it to one of the first model checking units for secondary school, developed by Vaandrager et al., which is still being used today.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	A journey from process algebra via timed automata to model learning
Subtitle of host publication	essays dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Editors	Nils Jansen, Mariëlle Stoelinga, Petra van den Bos
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer, Springer Nature
Pages	151-163
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031156298
ISBN (Print)	9783031156281
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15629-8_9
Publication status	Published - 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13560
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Keywords

Computer science education
Computing education programs
Model curricula

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10.1007/978-3-031-15629-8_9

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Fehnker, A. (2022). What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science. In N. Jansen, M. Stoelinga, & P. van den Bos (Eds.), A journey from process algebra via timed automata to model learning : essays dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday (pp. 151-163). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13560). Springer, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15629-8_9

Fehnker, Ansgar. / What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science. A journey from process algebra via timed automata to model learning : essays dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday. editor / Nils Jansen ; Mariëlle Stoelinga ; Petra van den Bos. Cham : Springer, Springer Nature, 2022. pp. 151-163 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Fehnker, A 2022, What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science. in N Jansen, M Stoelinga & P van den Bos (eds), A journey from process algebra via timed automata to model learning : essays dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13560, Springer, Springer Nature, Cham, pp. 151-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15629-8_9

What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science. / Fehnker, Ansgar.
A journey from process algebra via timed automata to model learning : essays dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday. ed. / Nils Jansen; Mariëlle Stoelinga; Petra van den Bos. Cham: Springer, Springer Nature, 2022. p. 151-163 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13560).

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Fehnker A. What's in school? – topic maps for secondary school computer science. In Jansen N, Stoelinga M, van den Bos P, editors, A journey from process algebra via timed automata to model learning : essays dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Cham: Springer, Springer Nature. 2022. p. 151-163. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15629-8_9