<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ján  Záhorec</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alena  Hašková</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michal  Munk</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT STATE IN TEACHING INFORMATICS AT UPPER SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION (ISCED3) IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODICAL STARTING POINTS</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cronbach’s alpha coefficient</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">quality in education</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">April/2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=939906</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">When considering the quality of education, one of the most important screening values is the information about students´ attitude towards the particular subject that on the one hand is determined by the character of the subject and on the other hand by many other aspects. This paper is based on the widely conceived international research oriented on the comparative evaluation of current state of teaching Informatics from the point of view of specific factors at the upper secondary level of education (ISCED 3) in the Slovak and Czech republics. Based on the comparison of positive experience and diagnosis of strengths and weaknesses in teaching Informatics and Programming its aim from the long-time perspective is to design various possibilities of quality and attraction increase of their teaching in the Slovak Republic. The authors focus on the specification of some factors that significantly influence quality of teaching Informatics from the students´ point of view. They also present an analysis of the questionnaire items reliability used to create a quality tool for obtaining reliable data within the completed international research. </style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">131-142</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ján  Záhorec</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alena  Hašková</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adriana  Nagyová</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">TEACHING INFORMATICS AT UPPER SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION (ISCED 3A) IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC: EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT STATE</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">quality in education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">school subject informatics</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">December/2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1408436123.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">37</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A key aspect for evaluation of a school subject teaching, which is applied in the majority of EU countries, is filling the school curricula with the content subject mater, the extent of their connection with practice and its needs and impulses, compatibility and comparability in the European education area. The paper is based on a widely conceived international research oriented on the comparative evaluation of the current state of teaching the school subject informatics from the point of view of specific factors at the upper secondary level of education (ISCED 3A) in three EU countries - Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and Belgium. The authors describe statistical processing of the collected data and present quantitative and qualitative analyses of the obtained research results.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">119-128</style></section></record></records></xml>