Abstract:

Czech Republic as well as many other European and first-world countries underwent in past years a curriculum reform which implemented programming as a mandatory subject to the state education. Along with the implementation of programming, the Czech legislative empathised a role of a development of the computational thinking within the primary and lower secondary school students. Since the role of the modern technology is becoming even more prominent in the education, the development, the usage, and the assessment of the computational thinking skills are currently very frequently discussed subjects in pedagogy and didactics on the worldwide scale.

The aim of this research is to evaluate approaches of the Czech primary and the lower secondary teachers to the teaching of computing subjects and subjects related to information technologies and to compare these approaches with the newly implemented curriculum concept concerning an integration of the development of the computational thinking into the state education.

We conducted a systematic study of teachers’ viewpoints and teaching practices concerning the guided development of the computational thinking skills in their classes. The gained data will be used for a development of a standardized computational thinking test which will be tested on a Czech primary and lower secondary students.

Keywords:

Computational thinking, primary school education, secondary school education, computational thinking skills test.