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Publication Date: 2021
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A Comparison of Abstraction and Algorithmic Tasks Used in Bebras Challenge
Vanícek, Jirí; Simandl, Václav; Klofác, Patrik
Informatics in Education, v20 n4 p717-736 2021
This paper focuses on the analysis of Bebras Challenge tasks to find Informatics tasks that develop abstract thinking. Our study seeks to find which Bebras tasks develop abstraction and in what way. We analysed hundreds of tasks from the Czech contest to identify those tasks requiring participants to abstract directly or use abstract structures. Results show that an agreement among experts on stating which task is focused on abstraction is at a moderate level. We discovered that tasks focused on abstraction occur four to five times less frequently in sets of contest tasks than algorithmic tasks. Our findings proved that abstract tasks results compared with algorithmic ones did not differ in neither age nor gender group of contestants.
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Secondary Education, Difficulty Level, Computation, Competition, Classification, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Information Science
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Czech Republic
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