A comparative study on the place of coding education in secondary school curriculum and textbooks of Turkey, the UK and Russia

The teaching of coding which is the foundation of the 21st century skills is followed with great interest in the world. Recently, as a result of STEM education, which is an interdisciplinary teaching approach, the significant of coding education and its relation with other disciplines is more important. As in Turkey, it is the most important mistakes in front of the coding training that thinks that coding is related only to the informatics course. The mathematics that forms the basis of the coding course must be at the point of coding education. When countries with proven success in coding education are examined, the importance given to mathematics is understood. In this study, the determination of the place of coding training in computing and computing curriculum textbooks in Turkey, UK, and Russia is made. The similarities and differences between the coding trainings in these three countries were evaluated using CIPP model and Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction. In study, as the textbooks Information Technologies and Software Course 5th Grade Teacher's Guide (online book), Matrix Computing for 11-14, 8th Informatics course book and as the curriculum, The Information Technologies and Software Curriculum for Turkey in 2017, Computing in the National Curriculum Key Stage 3 for England in 2014, the informatics curriculum for Russia in 2012 were used. With this study, the adequacy of curricula and textbooks in Turkey were implemented by the Ministry of Education was evaluated. In addition, the similarities and differences of curricula and textbooks in Turkey, England and Russia compared and evaluated. As a result of the study, identified deficiencies in terms of suggestions for coding training in Turkey.