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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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Yadav, Alok Kumar; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This paper intends to present an overview of a mobile game-based learning application, BaghLearn that develops and upskills programming and algorithmic knowledge by cross-curricular capabilities through a traditional world-based game. The focus of this research was to explore the learning effectiveness of BaghLearn on students. Mixed method…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Handheld Devices, Educational Games
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Judy Dori, Yehudit Judy; Kohen, Zehavit; Rizowy, Brian – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
The Mathematics for Computer Science mandatory course was conducted in a flipped classroom (FC) setting with an optional, voluntary, project-based learning (PBL) component. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of studying in an FC setting, with and without PBL, on students' problem-solving performance, conceptual understanding,…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
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Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The subject of computer science (CS) and computer science education (CSE) has relatively recently arisen as a subject for inclusion within the compulsory school curriculum. Up to this present time, a major focus of technologies in the school curriculum has in many countries been on applications of existing technologies into subject practice (both…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Integrated Curriculum, Required Courses, Educational Policy
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Baugh, Jeanne M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
All Computer Information Systems programs require a database course for their majors. This paper describes an approach to such a course in which real world examples, both design projects and actual database application projects are incorporated throughout the semester. Students are expected to apply the traditional database concepts to actual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Information Systems, Databases
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Thomas, Jennifer D. E.; Blackwood, Martina – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
This paper presents an investigation of non-Information Systems (IS) major's perceptions and performance when enrolled in a required introductory Computer Information Systems course. Students of various academic backgrounds were taught Excel, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JavaScript and computer literacy in a 14-week introductory course, in…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Information Systems, Nonmajors, Required Courses
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Lee, Tsang-Hsiung; Shen, Pei-Di; Tsai, Chia-Wen – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
This article describes the design and delivery of a compulsory course in packaged software at vocational schools in Taiwan. A course website was devised and deployed to supplement learning activities in the traditional classroom. A series of quasi-experiments was conducted with innovative instructional designs, that is, web-enabled problem-based…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Independent Study, Computer Science Education, Vocational Schools