Informatics in Schools: Improvement of Informatics Knowledge and Perception [electronic resource] : 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, Münster, Germany, October 13-15, 2016, Proceedings / edited by Andrej Brodnik, Françoise Tort.

Teaching Computer Image Processing Subject to Middle School Students: Cognitive and Affective aspects -- Analyzing Conceptual Content of International Informatics Curricula for Secondary Education -- It’s computational thinking! Bebras tasks in the curriculum -- Comparing the Performance of Girls and Boys in Bebras Challenge -- Attitudes towards Computer Science in Secondary Education: Evaluation of an Introductory Course -- Typifying Informatics Teachers’ PCK of Designing Digital Artefacts in Dutch Upper Secondary Education -- Students’ Success in the Bebras Challenge in Lithuania: Focus on a Long-term Participation -- What Makes Situational Informatics Tasks Difficult -- A New Informatics Curriculum for Secondary Education in The Netherlands -- And Now What Do We Do with Our Schoolchildren -- Defining and Observing Modeling and Simulation in Informatics -- K-12 Computer Science Education Across the U.S -- Combining the Power of Python with the Simplicity of Logo for a Sustainable Computer Science Education -- A new interactive Computer Science textbook in Slovenia -- Computer Science in the eyes of its teachers in French-speaking Switzerland -- IT2School - Development of Teaching Materials for CS through Design Thinking -- ”Why Can’t I Learn Programming?” – The Learning and Teaching Environment of Programming. .

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, held in Münster, Germany, in October 2015. The 17 full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The focus of the conference was on following topics: sustainable education in informatics for pupils of all ages; connecting informatics lessons to the students’ everyday lives; teacher education in informatics or computer science; and research on informatics or computer science in schools (empirical/qualitative/quantitative/theory building/research methods/comparative studies/transferability of methods and results from other disciplines).