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Direct linkLiebenberg, Janet; Pieterse, Vreda – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate the feasibility of automatic assessment of programming tasks and to compare manual assessment with automatic assessment in terms of the effect of the different assessment methods on the marks of the students. Background: Manual assessment of programs written by students can be tedious. The…
Descriptors: Programming, Comparative Analysis, Grades (Scholastic), Evaluation Methods
Coetzee, Bronwynè; Kagee, Ashraf – Africa Education Review, 2021
In psychology departments in South Africa, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is routinely used for quantitative analysis. While SPSS has a user-friendly interface, it does not permit application of some of the more sophisticated analytic approaches and therefore has limited functionality. The programming language R can perform…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Psychology, Programming Languages
Marimuthu, Mudaray; Kumar, Deepak; Chhagan, Mishaan – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Software is a vital resource for modern life. For software to be successful, programming skills are of the utmost importance. These skills are used both by programmers and also by systems analysts and designers during the phases of software development. Therefore, both technical and non-technical stakeholders within the software development…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Business Administration Education, Computer Software, Programming
Marshall, Linda; Pieterse, Vreda; Thompson, Lisa; Venter, Dina M. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Employers require software engineers to work in teams when developing software systems. It is therefore important for graduates to have experienced teamwork before they enter the job market. We describe an experiential learning exercise that we designed to teach the software engineering process in conjunction with teamwork skills. The underlying…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Teamwork, Computer Software, Programming
Liebenberg, Janet; Huisman, Magda; Mentz, Elsa – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
Despite a widely-acknowledged shortage of software developers, and reports of a gap between industry needs and software education, the possible gap between students' needs and software development education has not been explored in detail. In their university education, students want to take courses and carry out projects that clearly relate to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Relevance (Education), Computer Software
Scholtz, Brenda; Cilliers, Charmain; Calitz, Andre – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2012
Graduates with industry-relevant ERP competencies are highly sought after. This requirement is due to a dominance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and the positive affect which good quality ERP specialists have on the success rate of ERP system implementation projects. Universities are therefore increasingly pressurised to supply…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Competency Based Education, Computer Software, Experiential Learning
Download full textNunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed.; Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2017, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 20-22 July, 2017. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2017, 20-23 July, which had a total of 652 submissions.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Information Literacy
de Villiers, M. Ruth – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
The teaching and learning of a complex section in "Theoretical Computer Science 1" in a distance-education context at the University of South Africa (UNISA) has been enhanced by a supplementary e-learning application called "Relations," which interactively teaches mathematical skills in a cognitive domain. It has tutorial and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Instructional Design, Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
