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Angeles Lopez; M. Asunción Castaño; M. Victoria Ibáñez; Ismael Sanz; Lledó Museros; Reyes Grangel – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
The Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering at University Jaume I has a capstone project in which the student develops, during a 300-hour internship in an enterprise, a real-world project. We collected data for five academic years to analyze the assessment process to propose a new hybrid model, which combines analytic and holistic assessment and…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Internship Programs, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students
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Lyon, Louise Ann; Green, Emily – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021
College-educated women in the workforce are discovering a latent interest in and aptitude for computing motivated by the prevalence of computing as an integral part of jobs in many fields as well as continued headlines about the number of unfilled, highly paid computing jobs. One of these women's choices for retraining are the so-called coding…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Coding, Programming, Females
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Maher Salem; Khalid Samara; Abdel-Karim Al-Tamimi – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
This study focuses on the challenges encountered in online cybersecurity education. It adopts an exploratory research design using a mixed-methods approach to investigate the perceptions and experiences of postgraduate students enrolled in an online cybersecurity program. The collection of data is structured into two distinct phases. In the…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Guidelines, Student Motivation
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Borstler, Jurgen; Hilburn, Thomas B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Team projects are a way to expose students to conflicting project objectives, and "[t]here should be a strong real-world element...to ensure that the experience is realistic" [ACM/IEEE-CS 2015b]. Team projects provide an opportunity for students to put their education into practice and prepare them for their professional careers. The aim…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Psychological Patterns
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Börstler, Jürgen; Hilburn, Thomas B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Team projects are a way to expose students to conflicting project objectives, and "[t]here should be a strong real-world element … to ensure that the experience is realistic" [ACM/IEEE-CS 2015b]. Team projects provide students an opportunity to put their education into practice and prepare them for their professional careers. The aim of…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Magana, Alejandra J.; Falk, Michael L.; Reese, Michael J., Jr. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
This article investigates the effectiveness of a course employing a discipline-based computing approach. The research questions driving this study were: (1) Can experiences with discipline-based computing promote students' acquisition and application of foundational computing concepts and procedures? (2) How do students perceive and experience the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Instructional Effectiveness