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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
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Deepak Dawar – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Learning computer programming is typically difficult for newcomers. Demotivation and learned helplessness have received much attention. Besides the subject's intricacy, low in-class participation has been associated with poor student achievement. This paper presents a follow-up, stage 2 study on the novel instructional technique, Student-Driven…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Science Education, Required Courses, Elective Courses
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Dawar, Deepak; Murphy, Marianne – Information Systems Education Journal, 2020
Teaching introductory programming courses to university students who come from a varied set of academic and non-academic backgrounds is challenging. Students who are learning programming for the first time can become easily discouraged leading to procrastination that subsequently can have an unfavorable effect on their learning outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Introductory Courses, Programming
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Faja, Silvana – Information Systems Education Journal, 2014
This study investigates the effectiveness of pair programming on student learning and satisfaction in introductory programming courses. Pair programming, used in the industry as a practice of an agile development method, can be adopted in classroom settings to encourage peer learning, increase students' social skills, and enhance student…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Industry, Interpersonal Competence
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Hoskey, Arthur; Maurino, Paula San Millan – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
Numerous studies document high drop-out and failure rates for students in computer programming classes. Studies show that even when some students pass programming classes, they still do not know how to program. Many factors have been considered to explain this problem including gender, age, prior programming experience, major, math background,…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Science Education, Programming, Programming Languages