PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - HAVELKOVÁ, Hana
TI  - ALGORITMIC AND APPLICATION COMPUTER SKILLS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADUATES
DP  - 2017 Apr 30
TA  - Journal of Technology and Information Education
PG  - 109--121
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/jtie.2016.017
IS  - 1803537X
AB  - The paper is concerned on problem of detecting and comparing output informatics skills of secondary school graduates in the context of inconsistent school educational programs; it mentions the necessity of establishing unified output skills, lists some of testing tools used in schools. The author introduces the Hungarian didactic test which was used for testing current algorithmic and application computer skills of freshmen of tertiary IT studies. The appropriateness of using this test in Czech Republic in order to find out the current status quo is considered.  The author discusses this informatics test, analyses some particular tasks, and reveals the results of the first experimental testing among some IT students of West Bohemia University and South Bohemia University. A group of primary and secondary school teachers took part in the project, too, so students' results are compared not only between these two universities groups, but within groups with respect to students' self-assessments and teachers' prognosis.