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Wall, Jeffrey D.; Knapp, Janice – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
Learning technical computing skills is increasingly important in our technology driven society. However, learning technical skills in information systems (IS) courses can be difficult. More than 20 percent of students in some technical courses may dropout or fail. Unfortunately, little is known about students' perceptions of the difficulty of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Systems, Grounded Theory, Statistical Analysis
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Meyer, Josef – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1989
A study of the effectiveness of teaching science to 2 classes of 15 and 20 ninth-graders, respectively, illustrates 5 aspects of educational evaluation: age factors in teachability, test unidimensionality, comparison of 2 classes of students regarding mean ability, objective difficulty of test items, and objective ability of individual students.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment