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Shin-Shing Shin; Yu-Shan Lin; Yi-Cheng Chen; Wei-Ru Chiou – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: Learners of database courses usually encounter difficulties in building entity-relationship (ER) models and relational models for database problems. These difficulties may arise because of semantic gaps between the stages of database design. To investigate this issue, we employed semantic network theory--particularly the concept of…
Descriptors: Database Design, Semantics, Computer Science Education, Networks
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Cuadra, D.; Maqueda, A. I.; Castro, E.; Fernandez, P. M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Conceptual models are applied as the first step in software design methodologies for collecting the semantics involved in the universe of discourse. Nevertheless, the abstraction process creates some misunderstandings for novice designers, such as difficulties in modeling some constructs and in understanding the semantics that they represent. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Database Design, Models, Computer Software