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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2024)
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Computer cooking vs. problem solving

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2024-07-12
DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2024.13454
Authors
Mária Csernoch,
Tímea Nagy,
Júlia Csernoch
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Keywords
informatics curricula knowledge-transfer subject integration course books problem solving
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Csernoch, M., Nagy, T., & Csernoch, J. (2024). Computer cooking vs. problem solving. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 22(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2024.13454
Abstract

Computer cooking is a task-related phenomenon where students (end-users) must blindly follow a long list of orders without any connection to the content of the problem, if there is any. Despite its low efficacy, this method is widely used and accepted in informatics both in the learning-teaching process and testing. The National Base Curriculum 2020 in Hungary is in complete accordance with the ‘Informatics Reference Framework for Schools’, but the course books hardly use the latest results of computer education research. The present paper provides examples of how the results of computer education research can be integrated into teaching-learning materials and classroom practices and discusses the effectiveness and consequences of the different solutions, where tool-centred approaches are compared to problem-focused solutions.

Subject Classification: 94-01

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