A model for high school computer science education: The four key elements that make it

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 281-285

  Hazzan, Orit ^a   Gal Ezer, Judith ^b   Blum, Lenore ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University ^*

Author keywords

Computer science education; Computer science education research; Curriculum; Teacher preparation programs; Teaching certificate

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH; HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONS; HIGH SCHOOLS; KEY ELEMENTS; MODEL PROGRAMS; TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 47749103989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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