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The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP) is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, in both primary and secondary schools. The conference provides an opportunity for educators and researchers to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject matter, its curricula, various teaching and learning paradigms and topics, as well as the connections to everyday life — including the various ways of developing Informatics Education in schools.

The conference focuses on educational goals and objectives of Informatics or Computer Science as a subject matter in primary, secondary and vocational education and their different realisation in compulsory and voluntary courses.

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The main topics of the conference are:

Sustainable education in Informatics for pupils of all ages
Connecting Informatics lessons to the students’ everyday lives
Teacher education in Informatics
Research on Informatics in schools (empirical / qualitative / quantitative / theory building / research methods / comparative studies / transferability of methods and results from other disciplines)
Computer tools in teaching and studying Informatics

In particular, contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

Accessibility
Assessment
Application of intelligent technologies to personalise learning
Application of Learning Analytics to analyse learners behaviour
Classroom management
Communication skills
Contests and Competitions in Informatics
Computers and society
Courseware
Curriculum issues
Diagnostic teaching
Empirical methods
Ethical/societal issues
Gender and diversity issues
High school/college transition issues
Information systems
Interdisciplinary courses and projects
Laboratory/active learning
Learner profiles
Learning personalisation
Misconceptions
Multimedia
Pedagogy
Programming contests
Students cognitive traits
Students learning styles
Student retention and persistence
Research in Informatics education
Role of programming and algorithmics
Teacher education
Using emerging instructional technologies
Web-based techniques

Work submitted to ISSEP should be novel and material that has been previously published should not be republished unless the work has been significantly revised. Note however, that while novel work is highly valued, constructive replication of previous studies can also be a significant contribution, and a new interpretation or evaluation of previously-published work can make a good contribution.