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Download full textJames R. Wolf – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
This paper introduces the LEGO® Database, a large natural dataset that can be used to teach Structured Query Language (SQL) and relational database concepts. This dataset is well-suited for introductory and advanced database assignments and end-of-semester group projects. The data is freely available from Kaggle.com and contains eight tables with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Databases, Data Analysis, Web Sites
Guido Lang; Tan Gürpinar – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
This study investigates the effectiveness of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot to enhance learning and engagement in a self-paced, asynchronous online R programming course. To contextualize the development and potential of RAG chatbots, we conducted a literature review on existing approaches and their use in educational settings.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Program Effectiveness, Online Courses
Kevin Slonka; Matthew North; Neelima Bhatnagar; Anthony Serapiglia – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
Continuing to fill the literature gap, this research replicated and expands a prior study of student performance in database normalization in an introductory database course. The data was collected from four different universities, each having different prerequisite courses for their database course. Student performance on a database normalization…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Academic Achievement, Information Systems, Databases
Mark Frydenberg; Anqi Xu; Jennifer Xu – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
This study explores student perceptions of learning to code by evaluating AI-generated Python code. In an experimental exercise given to students in an introductory Python course at a business university, students wrote their own solutions to a Python program and then compared their solutions with AI-generated code. They evaluated both solutions…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Programming, Computer Software, Quality Assurance
A Comparison of Generative AI Solutions and Textbook Solutions in an Introductory Programming Course
Ernst Bekkering; Patrick Harrington – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
Generative AI has recently gained the ability to generate computer code. This development is bound to affect how computer programming is taught in higher education. We used past programming assignments and solutions for textbook exercises in our introductory programming class to analyze how accurately one of the leading models, ChatGPT, generates…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Textbook Evaluation
Ernst Bekkering – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
Undergraduate research can stimulate students' interest, especially in STEM disciplines. This research can be formally offered in different formats such as Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs). One of these is Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), which are offered as an integral part of scheduled courses. CUREs have been…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Computer Science Education, Student Interests
