TY - GEN
T1 - On the achievements of high school students studying computational models
AU - Michal, Armoni
AU - Gal-Ezer, Judith
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - One of the units in the relatively new high school CS curriculum which is being implemented in Israel is a theoretical unit on computational models. It includes deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular and non-regular languages, closure properties of regular languages, pushdown automata, closure properties of context free languages, Turing machines, the Church-Turing thesis and the halting problem. This paper focuses on part of a study we conducted dealing with the achievements of high school students studying this unit. Specifically, this paper compares the achievements of students on the technical parts of this unit vs. its theoretical parts. We also examine the correlation between achievements of students studying the Computational Models unit, and two other factors: The students' previous computer-related background (not necessarily computer science) and the level on which they studied mathematics.
AB - One of the units in the relatively new high school CS curriculum which is being implemented in Israel is a theoretical unit on computational models. It includes deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, regular and non-regular languages, closure properties of regular languages, pushdown automata, closure properties of context free languages, Turing machines, the Church-Turing thesis and the halting problem. This paper focuses on part of a study we conducted dealing with the achievements of high school students studying this unit. Specifically, this paper compares the achievements of students on the technical parts of this unit vs. its theoretical parts. We also examine the correlation between achievements of students studying the Computational Models unit, and two other factors: The students' previous computer-related background (not necessarily computer science) and the level on which they studied mathematics.
KW - Computational model
KW - Computer-related background
KW - Finite automata
KW - Mathematics level
KW - Pushdown automata
KW - Turing machines
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AN - SCOPUS:10044289533
SN - 1581138369
SN - 9781581138368
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
SP - 17
EP - 21
BT - Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
T2 - Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Y2 - 28 June 2004 through 30 June 2004
ER -