Informatics in Schools. Fostering Problem-Solving, Creativity, and Critical Thinking Through Computer Science Education 18th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2025, Trier, Germany, September 8–10, 2025, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2025, held in Trier, Germany, during September 8–10, 2025.

The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: Curricula and Computer Science Concepts; Teachers’ Perspective; AI and Digital Literacy; Programming, Problem Solving, and Computational Thinking.

.- Curricula and Computer Science Concepts.

.- New Standards for Lower Secondary Education in Informatics in Germany.

.- Optimising Programming Curriculum Gradation Using the Program
Builds Count Method.

.- Measuring the Impact of Curriculum Reforms through Bebras: The
Case for Standalone Informatics Education.

.- Principles of Computers – Model Lessons for Lower Secondary School:
Experience Report.

.- Teachers’ Perspective.

.- Method Meets Mindset: A Survey Instrument for Teachers’ Beliefs and
Self-Efficacy on Social Issues in Secondary Computing Education.

.- Professional Development for Bavarian Computer Science Teachers:
Evaluation and Effects on Attitudes towards AI.

.- Teaching Computational Thinking Through Active Games: Insights
from Teacher Training.

.- AI and Digital Literacy.

.- Assessing AI Literacy: A Systematic Review of Questionnaires with
Emphasis on Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Ethical Aspects.

.- How Aligned Are Humans and Large Language Models in Evaluating
Computational Thinking Tasks?.

.- Girls and Boys in the Digital World: Gender-specific Differences in an
Interdisciplinary Subject.

.- Programming, Problem Solving, and Computational Thinking.

.- On the Use of Tracing to Diagnose Misconceptions about Iteration.

.- A Teaching and Learning Oriented Decomposition of Debugging
Subskills Informed by Cognitive Load Theory.

.- BeLLE: Exploring the Accuracy of the Task Difficulty Ratings in the
Bebras Challenge.