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Gerard Dummer; Elwin Savelsbergh; Paul Drijvers – Informatics in Education, 2025
Programmed control systems are ubiquitous in the present-day world. In current educational practice, however, these systems are hardly being addressed, and little is known about children's spontaneous understandings about such systems. Therefore, we explored pupils' understandings prior to instruction in three concrete settings: a car park, an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 6, Computer Science Education
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Orly Barzilai; Sofia Sherman; Moshe Leiba; Hadar Spiegel – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
Data Structures and Algorithms (DS) is a basic computer science course that is a prerequisite for taking advanced information systems (IS) curriculum courses. The course aims to teach students how to analyze a problem, design a solution, and implement it using pseudocode to construct knowledge and develop the necessary skills for algorithmic…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Problem Solving, Information Systems, Algorithms
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Yabing Jiang; Kazuo Nakatani – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This research answers the call for Information Systems (IS) faculty to actively embrace rapidly advancing AI tools in teaching. We experimented with redesigning learning activities in two courses, requiring students to use GenAI, to aid student learning and teach responsible use of GenAI. The results show that students in the experimental group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education
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Baham, Corey – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
As the most widely used agile software development method, Scrum has become a mainstay in many organizations that develop software. Despite Scrum's popularity, several studies examine Scrum implementations that include some parts of the methodology and exclude others. This paper describes how Scrum has been incorporated into the classroom…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Classroom Techniques, Student Projects, Self Efficacy
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Adkins, Joni K.; Linville, Diana R. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
This paper reports the findings of a study done to determine if increasing the number of exams in a course had an effect on student grades. Some studies have found that more frequent exams positively influence scores while other studies have found more frequent exams do not make a difference in student achievement. This study examines the impact…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Programming, Undergraduate Students
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Schultz, Leah – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
This research investigates the implementation of the programming language Alice to teach computer programming logic to computer information systems students. Alice has been implemented in other university settings and has been reported to have many benefits including object-oriented concepts and an engaging and fun learning environment. In this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Student Surveys, Visual Aids
Loock, Joan W.; Schmitt, Bette – 2000
This document, which is intended for teachers of high school-level business education courses, contains both the academic standards for business education in Wisconsin secondary schools that were disseminated in 1998 and learning activities to enable students to meet the standards. The activities were developed for students completing grade 12 and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration