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, in both 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Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the scope of the conference (see below).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:
- 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
- Posters (2-4 pages)
- Workshops and panel proposals (2-4 pages)
- Doctoral consortium application (2 pages)
Accepted papers and poster abstracts will be included in the ISSEP 2022 local proceedings. Selected (top quality) full papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Conference scope
The main topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
- Pedagogies for informatics teaching and learning
- Teacher education in Informatics
- Learning/teaching resources for Informatics
- Digital literacy and computational thinking
- Connecting informatics education in formal, non-formal, and informal learning environments
- Informatics curricula, programs, and courses
- Informatics and digital literacy in contexts, for example, STEAM education
- Informatics education and digital citizenship
- Engagement and empowerment strategies
- Broadening participation and diversity
- Sustainable education
- Teaching AI
- Data literacy
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.
Important dates
- Abstract submission: May 15, 2022
- Full/short papers submission: May 22, 2022
- Doctoral Consortium application: May 22, 2022
- Posters, workshops, and panels proposals submission: July 15, 2022
- Notification of acceptance for papers: July 10, 2022
- Notification of acceptance for posters, workshops, and panels: August 7, 2022
- Doctoral Consortium: September 25, 2022
- Conference: September 26-28, 2022
Submission guidelines
The papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issep2022
As the papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed, the authors should leave their names and affiliations blank in the 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.
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 and ShareLatex. Abstract length — 200-300 words.
To prepare a paper for LNCS proceedings authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCID in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of the paper, must complete and sign a Consent to Publish Form (either for Springer LNCS or for local proceedings in CEUR-WS). The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
To prepare a poster proposal or proposal for a workshop or panel (2-4 pages) for the Local Proceedings authors are recommended to use Springer proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word.
Poster Requirements (accepted posters at the conference)
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: A1 landscape (594 x 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 to the conference