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In Slovakia, there has been an international Bebras competition (iBobor) since 2007. The first category named Little Beavers (Primary or Bobríci) includes pupils aged between 7 and 10 (2nd - 4th grade of primary school). In this article, we analyse tasks and results from this category collected in years 2012–2017. By qualitative and quantitative research methods, we have created a new categorisation of tasks based on their text analyses in order to better understand some patterns (and correlations) between the tasks and the results. We have created four different categories: Programming oriented tasks, Algorithmic, Logic and Digital Literacy. Using qualitative task analysis, we have also defined several subcategories and, based on analysis of contestants’ results, we have found different grade- and gender-to-performance correlation.
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see http://ibobor.sk/ - in Slovak only.
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The research was supported by the project Granty Univerzity Komenského (Comenius University grants) UK/372/2017.
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Budinská, L., Mayerová, K., Veselovská, M. (2017). Bebras Task Analysis in Category Little Beavers in Slovakia. In: Dagienė, V., Hellas, A. (eds) Informatics in Schools: Focus on Learning Programming. ISSEP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10696. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71483-7_8
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