Results of a Comparative Study of Standards in Information Technology for Students
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The Cuban Ministry of Education considers necessary the elaboration of standards in Information technology, in order to improve the general education syllabus. This article aims at the description of the main results of a comparative study of six standard aspects, applied in other countries, which will be a model for decisions making in the construction of national Information technology standards for students from the general education. This work is the result of a bibliographical research, where the following theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction. The comparison was made considering the criteria that arose from the different aspects sharing standards. The analysis of the current syllabus in the primary, secondary and senior high schools in Cuba was included. The main outcomes are the regularities related to the objectives, foundations, structure, links with the syllabus, based technologies and orientations for the design of activities. Other aspects were also analyzed, although they are not regularities, are relevant to the investigation, that´s the case of the conditions for the application of the aforementioned standards.
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