Submissions

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, mainly in 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 the educational goals and objectives of Informatics or Computer Science as a subject matter in primary, secondary, and vocational education and their different realization in compulsory and voluntary courses.

Call for Contributions

Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the scope of the conference (see below). All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by Programme Committee members.

There are four different submission categories for the main conference (2024. October 28-30.):

• Full Papers, divided into two subcategories (up to 12 pages):
  • Research papers (e.g., empirical, qualitative, quantitative, theory building, research methods, comparative studies, transferability of methods and results from other disciplines)
  • Best practice papers/country reports/experience reports
• Short Papers, divided into two subcategories (up to 8 pages)
  • Position/discussion papers
  • Work in progress
• Poster proposals (2-4 pages)
• Workshop and panel proposals (2-4 pages)

The page limitations must be honored and include references. For full and short papers, an optional appendix can be added, whose length must not exceed 2 pages.

Selected (top quality) full papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The other accepted papers as well as accepted workshop, poster, and panel proposals will be published in the local proceedings.

The main conference will be preceded by a doctoral consortium on 27th of October, 2024:

• Doctoral consortium applications are 2 pages long and should contain the information described on the main Doctoral Consortium page.

Conference Scope

The main topics of the conference include (but are not limited to):

• Computing in early-childhood, primary, secondary, and higher education
• Computational thinking
• AI, data education, data literacy
• Contests and competitions in informatics
• Broadening engagement and diversity
• Teacher education in informatics
• Learning solutions and courseware
• Curricula and policies in computing education
• Informatics and society in education
• Assessment of computing skills
• Extracurricular activities around computing
• Teaching of informatics to children with special education needs
• Teaching of informatics in relation with other school topics
• Role and importance of subtopics of computing
• Prior knowledge, misconceptions, and difficulties in computing
• Teaching strategies and modalities in informatics
• Sustainable education in informatics
• Newer topics in informatics education (e.g., quantum computing)
• Research approaches in computing education

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.

Submission Guidelines

All paper submissions will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issep2024. Posters, workshops, and panel proposals via e-mail (issep2024@inf.elte.hu)

Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style guidelines using LaTeX. The maximum length of the paper (including references, but excluding the optional appendix) is 12 pages. For online Latex editors, see, e.g., Overleaf or ShareLaTeX. The length of the abstract should be 200-300 words.

To prepare a poster, workshop, or panel proposal (2-4 pages) for the local proceedings, authors are also asked to use the same Springer templates, either for LaTeX or for Word.

As the short and full papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed, the authors should leave their names and affiliations blank in the initial submission, and take care to avoid details in the article that could be used to identify the authors. These include institution information, specific funding information and clear self-citations.

Poster Requirements

The purpose of the poster is to stimulate discussion with conference participants during the conference about your presented activity. For this purpose, the poster will be mounted and accessible during the whole conference. During the poster session, the presenters of the poster should be present at their posters to give short presentations to interested participants.

Size and orientation: A1 portrait (594 × 841 mm)

Contains at least: title, author(s), institution(s), contact information, problem statement, description of work, gained results, future work, main references.

Please bring a printed poster of the correct size to the conference.