Ever since information processing was incorporated into the list of instructional requirements for elementary, junior high, and senior high scools a great deal of effort has been devoted to developing a variety of curricula, teaching materials and tools for information processing education. The primary purpose of this study was to clarify information-processing competencies of junior high school students and analyze the relationships between academic achievement and said competencies. In preparation for this study the authors extracted four specific abilities which could be integrated into competencies related to information processing. These were (1) describing an algorithm using a procedural programming language, (2) operating a set of files, (3) information-processing competency, and (4) analyzing data processing competency in general problem solving. This was done so that it would be possible to analyze the relationships between these abilities and academic achievement. The results of this study showed that there are no strong correlation between the present-day mathematics curricula and the above four information-processing competencies. However, some specific mathematical domains (i. e., elementary algebra procedural problem solving) do have a slight correlation with some of the above information-processing competencies.
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