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Fulya Kula; Nelly Litvak; Tracy S. Craig – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
The sample mean in statistics is a concept of great importance, with its properties being extensively utilized in other areas, such as computer science. This research centers on the concept of the sample mean and its characteristics in a cohort of computer engineering students undertaking a required course in statistics at a university in the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Learning Processes, Statistics
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Petersheim, Corbin; Lahey, Joanna; Cherian, Josh; Pina, Angel; Alexander, Gerianne; Hammond, Tracy – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This study identifies which entry-level computer science (CS) resume items are most important and compares the ratings of student and recruiter participants to investigate the accuracy of student beliefs. To the authors' knowledge, this study is the first to analyze the extent to which CS students understand the resume screening…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Resumes (Personal), Student Attitudes
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Mike, Koby; Hazzan, Orit – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This article presents evidence that electrical engineering, computer science, and data science students, participating in introduction to machine learning (ML) courses, fail to interpret the performance of ML algorithms correctly, since they fail to consider the application domain. This phenomenon is referred to as the domain neglect…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Data Science, Introductory Courses
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Joy, M.; Cosma, G.; Yau, J. Y.-K.; Sinclair, J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper considers the problem of source code plagiarism by students within the computing disciplines and reports the results of a survey of students in Computing departments in 18 institutions in the U.K. This survey was designed to investigate how well students understand the concept of source code plagiarism and to discover what, if any,…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Computers, Computer Science Education, College Students