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Israel's Ministry of Education has decided to strengthen the STEM studies, including computer science (CS). A new curriculum for CS for junior high, which focuses on developing computational thinking, was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The evaluation contains a nationwide test at the end of each year. This paper describes the 2012 nationwide exam and its evaluation.
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