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TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – October 2012, volume 11 Issue 4
TABLE X. The mean and the standard deviation of right answers by Hungarian students specialized in
Informatics and Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course in the second part of secondary
Grade Subject
11. Theoretical knowledge
11. Word processing
11. Spreadsheet calculation
11. Database management
11. SQL
11. Programming
11. OOP
12. Theoretical knowledge
12. Word processing
12. Spreadsheet calculation
12. Database management
12. SQL
12. Programming
12. OOP
school on the basis of topics
Nationality
of students Mean
percent
of the
correct
answers
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Std.
Deviation
Hungarian 13,43 29,21% 7,61
Romanian 12,41 26,97% 4,01
Hungarian 5,48 39,13% 3,30
Romanian 3,85 27,51% 2,20
Hungarian 3,85 20,24% 1,97
Romanian 3,41 17,93% 2,15
Hungarian 3,09 17,15% 2,67
Romanian 3,26 18,11% 2,60
Hungarian 0,45 5,62% 1,55
Romanian 0,59 7,41% 1,28
Hungarian 7,09 27,26% 4,67
Romanian 10,70 41,17% 2,66
Hungarian 0,16 1,99% 0,66
Romanian 0,00 0,00% 0,00
Hungarian 16,81 36,55% 6,86
Romanian 15,30 33,26% 4,92
Hungarian 5,75 41,05% 2,35
.Romanian 5,70 40,71% 2,27
Hungarian 4,59 24,18% 3,53
Romanian 5,20 27,37% 2,63
Hungarian 2,68 14,90% 2,92
Romanian 5,75 31,94% 3,11
Hungarian 1,22 15,25% 2,32
Romanian 4,05 50,63% 3,33
Hungarian 5,60 21,56% 3,96
Romanian 13,05 50,19% 2,98
Hungarian 0,23 2,88% 0,70
Romanian 1,05 13,13% 1,54
In the 11 th grade Hungarian students attending an Informatics course performed better in theoretical knowledge,
word processing, spreadsheet calculation, database management and programming than Romanian students
attending a science course. On the basis of the data in the table this advantage remains only in the field of word
processing if compared with the scores of the Romanian students attending a Mathematics-Informatics course;
word processing is noticeably more emphasized in Hungary. The topic of SQL is only mentioned in both
countries. Romanian students had higher scores in programming. They have not learned object-oriented
programming in this grade yet.
In the 12 th grade the Hungarian advantage in the field of word processing disappears, Romanian students achieved
the same scores. They even produced better results in the field of database management, SQL and programming
than their Hungarian peers and their results are similar to those of the students attending a science course since
object-oriented programming appears in this grade.
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