Computer Science Competences in Italian Secondary Schools: a Preliminary Study

To enable a more effective process of learning and teaching, the pedagogic research and many educational institutions suggest an approach by competence. This approach is not yet widespread in the classes of Computer Science. This paper describes a study on Computer Science competences in Italian secondary schools. The study is the first step of an ongoing research project, whose goal is to develop an environment for the support of teaching by competences. To this end, a survey was run to gather data about the adoption of the competence approach in Italian secondary schools, among Computer Science teachers of 11 to 13 grade classes. The survey results are illustrated in the pa- per, along with the work-plan for developing the further steps of the research.