Appendix 3 for “A European survey on requirements for the informatics school curriculum and informatics school teachers’ education”

This appendix provide all the graphs showing responses to the survey discussed in the paper. Please refer to the Appendix 1 in the paper for a detailed description of each question.

In histograms representing questions that ask for values, the green bars denote the value or range that includes at least 50% of respondents, while the orange bars highlight some relevant outliers. In histograms addressing questions about the importance (1=lowest, 5=highest) the green bars highlight answers that reflect a higher-than-average importance.

The content of this Appendix is as it follows:

Primary School
Student curriculum
General questions
Core topic areas
Contemporary topics
Teacher education
General question
Core topic areas
Contemporary topics

Lower secondary School
Student curriculum
General questions
Core topic areas
Contemporary topics
Teacher education
General question
Core topic areas
Contemporary topics


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Primary School, general questions


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Primary School, student curriculum, core topic areas

Percentage of informatics curriculum time ideally allocated to each of the 11 Core Topic Areas described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Primary School, student curriculum, contemporary topics

Importance in an ideal informatics curriculum of each of the 10 Contemporary Topics described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Primary School, teacher education, general question

How many credits of education in informatics should teachers receive in total, during their university degree programme, to be able to teach informatics in primary school in an ideal situation in your country?


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Primary School, teacher education, core topic areas

Percentage of informatics curriculum time for teacher education ideally allocated to each of the 11 Core Topic Areas described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Primary School, teacher education, contemporary topics

Importance in an ideal informatics curriculum for teacher education of each of the 10 Contemporary Topics described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Lower Secondary School, teacher education, general questions


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Lower Secondary School, student curriculum, core topic areas

Percentage of informatics curriculum time ideally allocated to each of the 11 Core Topic Areas described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Lower Secondary School, student curriculum, contemporary topics

Importance in an ideal informatics curriculum of each of the 10 Contemporary Topics described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Lower Secondary School, teacher education, general question

How many credits of education in informatics should teachers receive in total, during their university degree programme, to be able to teach informatics in lower secondary school in an ideal situation in your country?


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Lower Secondary School, teacher education, core topic areas

Percentage of informatics curriculum time for teacher education ideally allocated to each of the 11 Core Topic Areas described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.


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Lower Secondary School, teacher education, contemporary topics

Importance in an ideal informatics curriculum for teacher education of each of the 10 Contemporary Topics described in the Informatics Reference Framework for School.