A study on attitudes and emphases in computer science teacher preparation

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 559-564

  Ragonis, Noa ^a,b   Hazzan, Orit ^b   Gal Ezer, Judith ^c  

^a BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Computer science teacher preparation; K 12 instruction; Methods of Teaching Computer Science course

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER PREPARATION; CS EDUCATION; K-12 INSTRUCTION; METHODS OF TEACHING COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SCIENCE TEACHERS; TEACHER PREPARATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

TEACHING;

EID: 79954441588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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