Vítor Rosa, member of the PISA_PT research team, published a new article in Eduser – revista de educação.
Portugal has been participating in several international studies related to student education and learning, carried out by several associations, in particular the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).
One of the most recent is the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), which seeks to assess the skills of students in the 8th year of school in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), focusing on two main domains: Computer and Information Literacy (CIL) and Computational Thinking (CT). In this article we analyze the general results of Portugal and gender differentiation.
We use an interpretive methodology, based on the analysis of reports and databases sought by different organizations. The results show that Portugal is in the group of participants who registered an average score higher than the midpoint of the ICILS scale. It also revealed that there is a gender differentiation in the two domains.