TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lewin, Cathy
A1  - McNicol, Sarah
T1  - Supporting the Development of 21st Century Skills through ICT
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The growing impact of globalisation and the development of
a ‘knowledge society’ have led many to argue that 21st century skills are
essential for life in twenty-first century society and that ICT is central
to their development. This paper describes how 21st century skills, in
particular digital literacy, critical thinking, creativity, communication
and collaboration skills, have been conceptualised and embedded in the
resources developed for teachers in iTEC, a four-year, European project.
The effectiveness of this approach is considered in light of the data
collected through the evaluation of the pilots, which considers both the
potential benefits of using technology to support the development of
21st century skills, but also the challenges of doing so. Finally, the paper
discusses the learning support systems required in order to transform
pedagogies and embed 21st century skills. It is argued that support is
required in standards and assessment; curriculum and instruction; professional
development; and learning environments.
KW  - 21st century skills,
KW  - primary education
KW  - secondary education
KW  - pedagogy
KW  - innovation
Y1  - 2015
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SP  - 181
EP  - 198
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Magenheim, Johannes
A1  - Nelles, Wolfgang
A1  - Neugebauer, Jonas
A1  - Ohrndorf, Laura
A1  - Schaper, Niclas
A1  - Schubert, Sigrid
T1  - Expert Rating of Competence Levels in Upper Secondary Computer Science Education
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - In the project MoKoM, which is funded by the German
Research Foundation (DFG) from 2008 to 2012, a test instrument
measuring students’ competences in computer science was developed.
This paper presents the results of an expert rating of the levels of
students’ competences done for the items of the instrument.
At first we will describe the difficulty-relevant features that were
used for the evaluation. These were deduced from computer science,
psychological and didactical findings and resources. Potentials and
desiderata of this research method are discussed further on. Finally
we will present our conclusions on the results and give an outlook on
further steps.
KW  - Competence Modelling
KW  - Competence Measurement
KW  - Informatics System Application
KW  - Informatics System Comprehension
KW  - Informatics Modelling
KW  - Secondary Education
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 199
EP  - 216
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Opel, Simone
A1  - Kramer, Matthias
A1  - Trommen, Michael
A1  - Pottbäcker, Florian
A1  - Ilaghef, Youssef
T1  - BugHunt
BT  - A Motivating Approach to Self-Directed Problem-solving in Operating Systems
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Competencies related to operating systems and computer
security are usually taught systematically. In this paper we present
a different approach, in which students have to remove virus-like
behaviour on their respective computers, which has been induced by
software developed for this purpose. They have to develop appropriate
problem-solving strategies and thereby explore essential elements of
the operating system. The approach was implemented exemplarily in
two computer science courses at a regional general upper secondary
school and showed great motivation and interest in the participating
students.
KW  - Educational software
KW  - operating system
KW  - student activation
KW  - problem-solving
KW  - interactive course
KW  - interactive workshop
KW  - edutainment
KW  - secondary computer science education
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 217
EP  - 233
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Passig, David
A1  - Tzuriel, David
A1  - Kedmi, Ganit Eshel
T1  - Improving children’s Cognitive Modifiability through Mediated Learning and Dynamic Assessment within 3D Immersive Virtual Reality Environment
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The objectives of this study were to examine (a) the effect
of dynamic assessment (DA) in a 3D Immersive Virtual Reality
(IVR) environment as compared with computerized 2D and noncomputerized
(NC) situations on cognitive modifiability, and (b) the
transfer effects of these conditions on more difficult problem solving
administered two weeks later in a non-computerized environment. A
sample of 117 children aged 6:6-9:0 years were randomly assigned
into three experimental groups of DA conditions: 3D, 2D, and NC, and
one control group (C). All groups received the pre- and post-teaching
Analogies subtest of the Cognitive Modifiability Battery (CMB-AN).
The experimental groups received a teaching phase in conditions similar
to the pre-and post-teaching phases. The findings showed that cognitive
modifiability, in a 3D IVR, was distinctively higher than in the two
other experimental groups (2D computer group and NC group). It was
also found that the 3D group showed significantly higher performance
in transfer problems than the 2D and NC groups.
KW  - Dynamic assessment
KW  - mediated learning experience
KW  - cognitive modifiability
KW  - analogical thinking
KW  - virtual reality
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 235
EP  - 252
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Saito, Toshinori
T1  - The Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT viewed from Nussbaum’s Ten Central Capabilities
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - This article shows a discussion about the key competencies
in informatics and ICT viewed from a philosophical foundation presented
by Martha Nussbaum, which is known as ‘ten central capabilities’.
Firstly, the outline of ‘The Capability Approach’, which has been presented
by Amartya Sen and Nussbaum as a theoretical framework of
assessing the state of social welfare, will be explained. Secondly, the
body of Nussbaum’s ten central capabilities and the reason for being
applied as the basis of discussion will be shown. Thirdly, the relationship
between the concept of ‘capability’ and ‘competency’ is to be
discussed. After that, the author’s assumption of the key competencies
in informatics and ICT led from the examination of Nussbaum’s ten
capabilities will be presented.
KW  - Capability approach
KW  - competency
KW  - teaching informatics in general education
KW  - philosophical foundation of informatics pedagogy
KW  - education and public policy
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 253
EP  - 266
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Webb, Mary
T1  - Considerations for the Design of Computing Curricula
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - This paper originated from discussions about the need for
important changes in the curriculum for Computing including two focus
group meetings at IFIP conferences over the last two years. The
paper examines how recent developments in curriculum, together with
insights from curriculum thinking in other subject areas, especially mathematics
and science, can inform curriculum design for Computing.
The analysis presented in the paper provides insights into the complexity
of curriculum design as well as identifying important constraints and
considerations for the ongoing development of a vision and framework
for a Computing curriculum.
KW  - Curriculum
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Informatics
KW  - curriculum theory
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 267
EP  - 283
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Curzon, Paul
T1  - Unplugged Computational Thinking for Fun
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Computational thinking is a fundamental skill set that is learned
by studying Informatics and ICT. We argue that its core ideas can
be introduced in an inspiring and integrated way to both teachers and
students using fun and contextually rich cs4fn ‘Computer Science for
Fun’ stories combined with ‘unplugged’ activities including games and
magic tricks. We also argue that understanding people is an important
part of computational thinking. Computational thinking can be fun for
everyone when taught in kinaesthetic ways away from technology.
KW  - Computational thinking
KW  - cs4fn
KW  - ‘unplugged’ computing
KW  - kinaesthetic teaching
KW  - fun
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 15
EP  - 27
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kalas, Ivan
T1  - Programming at Pre-primary and Primary Levels
BT  - The Pipeline Can Start That Early
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
KW  - Learning interfaces development
KW  - computational thinking
KW  - educational programming
KW  - primary level
KW  - pre-primary level
Y1  - 2015
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SP  - 29
EP  - 31
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Magenheim, Johannes
A1  - Schubert, Sigrid
A1  - Schapert, Niclas
T1  - Modelling and Measurement of Competencies in Computer Science Education
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - As a result of the Bologna reform of educational systems in
Europe the outcome orientation of learning processes, competence-oriented
descriptions of the curricula and competence-oriented assessment
procedures became standard also in Computer Science Education
(CSE). The following keynote addresses important issues of shaping
a CSE competence model especially in the area of informatics system
comprehension and object-oriented modelling. Objectives and research
methodology of the project MoKoM (Modelling and Measurement
of Competences in CSE) are explained. Firstly, the CSE competence
model was derived based on theoretical concepts and then secondly the
model was empirically examined and refined using expert interviews.
Furthermore, the paper depicts the development and examination of
a competence measurement instrument, which was derived from the
competence model. Therefore, the instrument was applied to a large
sample of students at the gymnasium’s upper class level. Subsequently,
efforts to develop a competence level model, based on the retrieved empirical
results and on expert ratings are presented. Finally, further demands
on research on competence modelling in CSE will be outlined.
KW  - Competence Modelling
KW  - Competence Measurement
KW  - Informatics System Application
KW  - Informatics System Comprehension
KW  - Informatics Modelling
KW  - Secondary Education
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 33
EP  - 57
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barnes, Jan
A1  - Kennewell, Steve
T1  - Teacher Perceptions of Key Competencies in ICT
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Regardless of what is intended by government curriculum
specifications and advised by educational experts, the competencies
taught and learned in and out of classrooms can vary considerably.
In this paper, we discuss in particular how we can investigate the
perceptions that individual teachers have of competencies in ICT,
and how these and other factors may influence students’ learning. We
report case study research which identifies contradictions within the
teaching of ICT competencies as an activity system, highlighting issues
concerning the object of the curriculum, the roles of the participants and
the school cultures. In a particular case, contradictions in the learning
objectives between higher order skills and the use of application tools
have been resolved by a change in the teacher’s perceptions which
have not led to changes in other aspects of the activity system. We look
forward to further investigation of the effects of these contradictions in
other case studies and on forthcoming curriculum change.
KW  - ICT competencies
KW  - Teacher perceptions
KW  - Activity Theory
KW  - Contradictions
Y1  - 2015
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SP  - 61
EP  - 75
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bröker, Kathrin
A1  - Kastens, Uwe
A1  - Magenheim, Johannes
T1  - Competences of Undergraduate Computer Science Students
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The paper presents two approaches to the development of
a Computer Science Competence Model for the needs of curriculum
development and evaluation in Higher Education. A normativetheoretical
approach is based on the AKT and ACM/IEEE curriculum
and will be used within the recommendations of the German
Informatics Society (GI) for the design of CS curricula. An empirically
oriented approach refines the categories of the first one with regard to
specific subject areas by conducting content analysis on CS curricula of
important universities from several countries. The refined model will be
used for the needs of students’ e-assessment and subsequent affirmative
action of the CS departments.
KW  - Competences
KW  - Competence Measurement
KW  - Curriculum Development
KW  - Computer Science Education
KW  - Recommendations for CS-Curricula in Higher Education
Y1  - 2015
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SP  - 77
EP  - 96
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dagiene, Valentina
A1  - Stupuriene, Gabriele
T1  - Informatics Education based on Solving Attractive Tasks through a Contest
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The paper discusses the issue of supporting informatics
(computer science) education through competitions for lower and
upper secondary school students (8–19 years old). Competitions play
an important role for learners as a source of inspiration, innovation,
and attraction. Running contests in informatics for school students
for many years, we have noticed that the students consider the contest
experience very engaging and exciting as well as a learning experience.
A contest is an excellent instrument to involve students in problem
solving activities. An overview of infrastructure and development
of an informatics contest from international level to the national one
(the Bebras contest on informatics and computer fluency, originated
in Lithuania) is presented. The performance of Bebras contests in 23
countries during the last 10 years showed an unexpected and unusually
high acceptance by school students and teachers. Many thousands of
students participated and got a valuable input in addition to their regular
informatics lectures at school. In the paper, the main attention is paid
to the developed tasks and analysis of students’ task solving results in
Lithuania.
KW  - Informatics Education
KW  - Computer Science Education
KW  - Tasks
KW  - Tests
KW  - Contest
KW  - Problem Solving
KW  - Cognitive Skills
KW  - Bloom’s Taxonomy
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 97
EP  - 115
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ellis, Jason Brent
A1  - Abreu-Ellis, Carla Reis
T1  - Student Perspectives of Social Networking use in Higher Education
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Social networks are currently at the forefront of tools that
lend to Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). This study aimed to
observe how students perceived PLEs, what they believed were the
integral components of social presence when using Facebook as part
of a PLE, and to describe student’s preferences for types of interactions
when using Facebook as part of their PLE. This study used mixed
methods to analyze the perceptions of graduate and undergraduate
students on the use of social networks, more specifically Facebook as a
learning tool. Fifty surveys were returned representing a 65 % response
rate. Survey questions included both closed and open-ended questions.
Findings suggested that even though students rated themselves relatively
well in having requisite technology skills, and 94 % of students used
Facebook primarily for social use, they were hesitant to migrate these
skills to academic use because of concerns of privacy, believing that
other platforms could fulfil the same purpose, and by not seeing the
validity to use Facebook in establishing social presence. What lies
at odds with these beliefs is that when asked to identify strategies in
Facebook that enabled social presence to occur in academic work, the
majority of students identified strategies in five categories that lead to
social presence establishment on Facebook during their coursework.
KW  - Social
KW  - networks
KW  - higher
KW  - education
KW  - personal
KW  - learning
KW  - environments
KW  - Facebook
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 117
EP  - 131
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grillenberger, Andreas
A1  - Romeike, Ralf
T1  - Teaching Data Management
BT  - Key Competencies and Opportunities
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Data management is a central topic in computer science as
well as in computer science education. Within the last years, this topic is
changing tremendously, as its impact on daily life becomes increasingly
visible. Nowadays, everyone not only needs to manage data of various
kinds, but also continuously generates large amounts of data. In
addition, Big Data and data analysis are intensively discussed in public
dialogue because of their influences on society. For the understanding of
such discussions and for being able to participate in them, fundamental
knowledge on data management is necessary. Especially, being aware
of the threats accompanying the ability to analyze large amounts of
data in nearly real-time becomes increasingly important. This raises the
question, which key competencies are necessary for daily dealings with
data and data management.
In this paper, we will first point out the importance of data management
and of Big Data in daily life. On this basis, we will analyze which are
the key competencies everyone needs concerning data management to
be able to handle data in a proper way in daily life. Afterwards, we will
discuss the impact of these changes in data management on computer
science education and in particular database education.
KW  - Data Management
KW  - Key Competencies
KW  - Big Data
KW  - NoSQL
KW  - Databases
KW  - Data Privacy
KW  - Data Analysis
KW  - Challenges
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 133
EP  - 150
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haugsbakken, Halvdan
T1  - The Student Learning Ecology
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Educational research on social media has showed that
students use it for socialisation, personal communication, and informal
learning. Recent studies have argued that students to some degree use
social media to carry out formal schoolwork. This article gives an
explorative account on how a small sample of Norwegian high school
students use social media to self-organise formal schoolwork. This
user pattern can be called a “student learning ecology”, which is a
user perspective on how participating students gain access to learning
resources.
KW  - Learning ecology
KW  - social media
KW  - high school
KW  - Norway
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 151
EP  - 169
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jones, Anthony
T1  - ICT Competencies for School Students
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - This paper discusses results from a small-scale research
study, together with some recently published research into student
perceptions of ICT for learning in schools, to consider relevant skills
that do not appear to currently being taught. The paper concludes by
raising three issues relating to learning with and through ICT that need
to be addressed in school curricula and classroom teaching.
KW  - Learning with ICT
KW  - student perceptions
KW  - student experience
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 171
EP  - 179
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weigend, Michael
T1  - How Things Work
BT  - Recognizing and Describing Functionality
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Recognizing and defining functionality is a key competence
adopted in all kinds of programming projects. This study investigates
how far students without specific informatics training are able to identify
and verbalize functions and parameters. It presents observations
from classroom activities on functional modeling in high school chemistry
lessons with altogether 154 students. Finally it discusses the potential
of functional modelling to improve the comprehension of scientific
content.
KW  - Function
KW  - programming
KW  - parameter
KW  - competence
KW  - abstraction
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 285
EP  - 298
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bottino, Rosa
A1  - Chioccariello, Augusto
T1  - Computational Thinking
BT  - Videogames, Educational Robotics, and other Powerful Ideas to Think with
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - Digital technology has radically changed the way people
work in industry, finance, services, media and commerce. Informatics
has contributed to the scientific and technological development of our
society in general and to the digital revolution in particular. Computational
thinking is the term indicating the key ideas of this discipline that
might be included in the key competencies underlying the curriculum
of compulsory education. The educational potential of informatics has
a history dating back to the sixties. In this article, we briefly revisit this
history looking for lessons learned. In particular, we focus on experiences
of teaching and learning programming. However, computational
thinking is more than coding. It is a way of thinking and practicing interactive
dynamic modeling with computers. We advocate that learners
can practice computational thinking in playful contexts where they can
develop personal projects, for example building videogames and/or robots,
share and discuss their construction with others. In our view, this
approach allows an integration of computational thinking in the K-12
curriculum across disciplines.
KW  - Computational thinking
KW  - programming in context
KW  - informatics education
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 301
EP  - 309
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Christensen, Rhonda
A1  - Knezek, Gerald
T1  - The Technology Proficiency Self-Assessment Questionnaire (TPSA)
BT  - Evolution of a Self-Efficacy Measure for Technology Integration
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The Technology Proficiency Self-Assessment (TPSA) questionnaire
has been used for 15 years in the USA and other nations as a
self-efficacy measure for proficiencies fundamental to effective technology
integration in the classroom learning environment. Internal consistency
reliabilities for each of the five-item scales have typically ranged
from .73 to .88 for preservice or inservice technology-using teachers.
Due to changing technologies used in education, researchers sought to
renovate partially obsolete items and extend self-efficacy assessment to
new areas, such as social media and mobile learning. Analysis of 2014
data gathered on a new, 34 item version of the TPSA indicates that the
four established areas of email, World Wide Web (WWW), integrated
applications, and teaching with technology continue to form consistent
scales with reliabilities ranging from .81 to .93, while the 14 new items
gathered to represent emerging technologies and media separate into
two scales, each with internal consistency reliabilities greater than .9.
The renovated TPSA is deemed to be worthy of continued use in the
teaching with technology context.
KW  - Technology proficiency
KW  - self-efficacy
KW  - teacher competencies
Y1  - 2015
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IS  - 7
SP  - 311
EP  - 318
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Maina, Anthony Gioko
A1  - Angondi, Enos Kiforo
A1  - Waga, Rosemary
T1  - How does the Implementation of a Literacy Learning Tool Kit influence Literacy Skill Acquisition?
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - This study aimed at following how teachers transfer skills
into results while using ABRA literacy software. This was done in
the second part of the pilot study whose aim was to provide equity to
control group teachers and students by exposing them to the ABRACADABRA
treatment after the end of phase 1. This opportunity was
used to follow the phase 1 teachers to see how the skills learned were
being transformed into results. A standard three-day initial training and
planning session on how to use ABRA to teach literacy was held at the
beginning of each phase for ABRA teachers (phase 1 experimental and
phase 2 delayed ABRA). Teachers were provided with teaching materials
including a tentative ABRA curriculum developed to align with the
Kenyan English Language requirements for year 1 and 3 students. Results
showed that although there was no significant difference between
the groups in vocabulary-related subscales which include word reading
and meaning as well as sentence comprehension, students in ABRACADABRA
classes improved their scores at a significantly higher rate
than students in control classes in comprehension related scores. An
average student in the ABRACADABRA group improved by 12 and
16 percentile points respectively compared to their counterparts in the
control group.
KW  - ABRACADABRA
KW  - Early Literacy
KW  - Achievement
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Learners
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82856
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 7
SP  - 319
EP  - 326
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -