Quality of Brazilian Scientific Research in Computer Science in Education: Challenges and Perspectives
Abstract
This article aims to discuss the challenge of the quality of the Brazilian scientific research in Computers in Education. Initially, we present the current research scenario as a way of identifying factors that determine the quality and national and international impact of the research in the area. Afterwards, we propose some actions to be accomplished by the Brazilian Special Commission on Computers in Education to promote improvements. These actions are organized in four axes: (i) Curate a history of the area of Computers in Education in Brazil, including public policy initiatives and stories of success and failure; (ii) Rationale of the concepts and terminologies of the area of Computers in Education; (iii) Advancement and Dissemination of the state of the art and practice in the area of Computers in Education; (iv) Dissemination and evolution of research methods in Computers in Education. Finally, to verify the impact of the proposed actions on the quality of Brazilian research in Computers in Education, we propose some metrics, which will allow a quantitative and objective analysis of the impact of the proposed actions.
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