Abstract:

In today's digital world, it is essential that the development of students' algorithmic skills is consciously integrated into their education from primary school onwards. This not only promotes IT skills and knowledge as algorithmic skills are the basis for both problem-solving and logical thinking. These are essential for adapting to the demands of a digital world and for finding effective solutions to problems and tasks, both in everyday life and at school or later in the workplace, by using step-by-step thinking and contextual reasoning. To develop students' skills, it is important to see the input level and the extent to which development can be achieved with given methods and frequency for children of a given age. In designing the online questionnaire, we took into account the age of the children and their current level of development of algorithmic skills. An important consideration was to use clear instructions and varied task types with language appropriate to the age group. This paper describes the construction of a questionnaire to measure the state and development of algorithmic skills of 10-11 (n= 160) and 14-15 (n= 122) year olds and the effectiveness of the instrument.

Keywords:

Education, algorithmic skills, programming, measurement tool.