TY - CHAP
T1 - Computing in School in the UK & Ireland: A Comparative Study
AU - Sentance, Sue
AU - Kirby, Diana
AU - Quille, Keith
AU - Cole, Elizabeth
AU - Crick, Tom
AU - LOOKER, NICOLA
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Owner/Author.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Many countries have increased their focus on computing in primary and secondary education in recent years and the UK and Ireland are no exception. The four nations of the UK have distinct and separate education systems, with England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland offering different national curricula, qualifications, and teacher education opportunities; this is the same for the Republic of Ireland. This paper describes computing education in these five jurisdictions and reports on the results of a survey conducted with computing teachers. A validated instrument was localised and used for this study, with 512 completed responses received from teachers across all five countries The results demonstrate distinct differences in the experiences of the computing teachers surveyed that align with the policy and provision for computing education in the UK and Ireland. This paper increases our understanding of the differences in computing education provision in schools across the UK and Ireland, and will be relevant to all those working to understand policy around computing education in school.
AB - Many countries have increased their focus on computing in primary and secondary education in recent years and the UK and Ireland are no exception. The four nations of the UK have distinct and separate education systems, with England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland offering different national curricula, qualifications, and teacher education opportunities; this is the same for the Republic of Ireland. This paper describes computing education in these five jurisdictions and reports on the results of a survey conducted with computing teachers. A validated instrument was localised and used for this study, with 512 completed responses received from teachers across all five countries The results demonstrate distinct differences in the experiences of the computing teachers surveyed that align with the policy and provision for computing education in the UK and Ireland. This paper increases our understanding of the differences in computing education provision in schools across the UK and Ireland, and will be relevant to all those working to understand policy around computing education in school.
KW - computing education
KW - teacher professional development
KW - curriculum
KW - METRECC
KW - Computing education
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U2 - 10.1145/3555009.3555015
DO - 10.1145/3555009.3555015
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781450397421
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 1
BT - UKICER 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research
A2 - Quille, Keith
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - UKICER2022: The United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference
Y2 - 1 September 2022 through 2 September 2022
ER -