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Comparing Top-Down with Bottom-Up Approaches: Teaching Data Modeling
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Kung, Hsiang-Jui; Kung, LeeAnn; Gardiner, Adrian – Information Systems Education Journal, 2013
Conceptual database design is a difficult task for novice database designers, such as students, and is also therefore particularly challenging for database educators to teach. In the teaching of database design, two general approaches are frequently emphasized: top-down and bottom-up. In this paper, we present an empirical comparison of students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Database Design, Intermode Differences, Instructional Effectiveness