The aim of our research project called DidaTab - Didactics of Spreadsheets - is to get a more comprehensive picture of ICT uses in French schools and to obtain a better knowledge of students' spreadsheet competencies. The exploratory study of curricula and practices shows very sparse use during secondary education. To achieve a more precise estimation of what students can do with spreadsheets, we identified detailed competencies and designed computer performance tasks to serve as a basis for tests. The analysis of the results of a few groups indicates that in most cases students' knowledge and skills are rather low. A deeper investigation of students' work shows close links between lack of confidence with spreadsheets and lack of knowledge in mathematics and informatics. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Tort, F., Blondel, F. M., & Bruillard, É. (2008). Spreadsheet knowledge and skills of French secondary school students. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5090 LNCS, pp. 305–316). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69924-8_28
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