scholarly journals A CTF-Based Approach in Cyber Security Education for Secondary School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Haziq Ashrofie Hanafi ◽  
Haikal Rokman ◽  
Ahmad Dahaqin Ibrahim ◽  
Zul-Azri Ibrahim ◽  
Md Nabil Ahmad Zawawi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Security Education ◽  
Computer Science Curriculum ◽  
Educational Modules

Cybersecurity education topics require technical understanding. However, it is a challenging task for any teacher to introduce topics to students who have no technical background. Recently, the concept of gamification has been implemented as a tool to inculcate student’s interest using a variety of popular in-games techniques and applying them to educational modules. Extending from this notion, it was found that Capture the Flag (CTF) competition style is a successful way of introducing students to various technical concepts in the standard computer science curriculum. During the 2019 school holiday, a CTF for secondary school students was run at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) with the primary goal of introducing secondary school students to various cybersecurity topics and also to inculcate their interest in cybersecurity. The method that we used is different from other CTF or similar events, in which we use a scenario-based approach. We found that this method attracts participants in solving each challenge in a competitive environment.

New Approach for Comparison of Countries’ Achievements in Science Olympiads

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Mile JOVANOV ◽  
Marija MIHOVA ◽  
Bojan KOSTADINOV ◽  
Emil STANKOV
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The Government ◽  
Valuable Content

There are several International Olympiads for secondary school students (for example, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics). These Olympiads are not just a science competition, but a means to care for talent in the particular science. The goal of this paper is to identify the necessary topics important for good results at these international contests, and to compare the contest systems for the countries in South Eastern Europe, in the field of Informatics (Computer Science), as a region that is one of the prominent world regions in the context of high results in the international competitions. Here, we provide comparison through detailed analysis of several countries, and further we present a new approach that may be used to compare the achievements of the countries based on the results that students achieved at these competitions. Finally, we present an application of this approach on the results of some of the discussed countries compared to Macedonia. We strongly believe that the paper will provide a valuable content and approach for the entities involved in the organization of the contests, to measure their results compared to other countries, to use the information for improvement, and to use their achievements to raise awareness among the government institutions and companies in order to get support from them.

Computer science curriculum for high school students

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
R. M. Aiken ◽  
C. E. Hughes ◽  
J. M. Moshell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
School Students ◽  
Computer Science Curriculum

scholarly journals The story behind the discovery: integrating short historical stories in science teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naji Kortam ◽  
Muhamad Hugerat ◽  
Rachel Mamlok-Naaman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Electrical Current ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Arab Schools ◽  
Scientific Ideas

AbstractThe use of the historical approach in teaching science has been studied for many years. Many researchers claimed that this approach has the power to improve students’ understanding of the nature of science (NOS) by emphasizing not only the products of science but also the evolution of its ideas. In this paper we will deal with historical stories which were integrated into the science curriculum of primary, middle, and secondary school students from Arab schools in the Israeli Galilee (270 students). Integrating short historical stories in science teaching is a pedagogical approach in which teachers use the chronological story of scientific discoveries and the evolution of scientific ideas in order to render students’ perceptions of the conceptual aspects of science, its processes and contexts more accurately. The stories in this paper refer to discoveries by four scientists: Galvani (the discovery of the electrical current), Fleming (the discovery of penicillin), Archimedes (the discovery of the floating principle), and Kekulé (the discovery of the structure of the benzene ring). At the completion of enacting this curriculum, the students were asked to write their reflections. By reading the students’ reflections we found out that they noticed that certain circumstances must be present in order to enable a scientist to make his discovery.

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