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A case study of metrics for assessing STEM scholarship programs
(Journal of Computer Sciences in Colleges, 2011)
As the challenges in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education become more prominent, resources for promoting STEM education are more available. STEM scholarship programs, such as the S-STEM program ...
Experience on Mashup Development with End User Programming Environment
(Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), 2010)
Mashups, Web applications integrating data and functionality from other Web sources to provide a new service, have quickly become ubiquitous. Because of their role as a focal point in three important trends (Web 2.0, ...
From Expectation to Actual Perception after Experience: A Longitudinal Study of the Perceptions of Student Response Systems
(Proceedings of the 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS, 2011-08)
Interactive student response systems (SRSs) are becoming popular as many instructors at the tertiary level education institutions adopt the systems to transform traditional passive lectures into interactive classes. Despite ...
Formative Assessment of Meaningful Learning in IS Education Using Concept Mapping
(Proceedings of the EDSIG Conference, 2017-11)
Information Systems (IS) education needs to focus on meaningful learning because it is essential in cultivating students’ problem solving and critical thinking skills. In formative assessment of the meaningful learning, ...
Undergraduate Research Experience through the NASA Microgravity University Program
(Journal of Computer Sciences in Colleges, 2013)
Meaningful Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) is known to provide many benefits including enhancing enrollment and retention, supporting richer experiential education, improving students’ personal,
professional ...
Using Concept Maps to Teach and Assess Critical Thinking in IS Education
(Proceedings of the 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS, 2016-08)
Concept maps have been widely used in education as tools for knowledge representation in both teaching
and learning. Built on rigorous learning theories, concept mapping is a technique that is easy to learn and
use. ...
Using Concept Maps to Assess Students’ Meaningful Learning in IS Curriculum
(Proceedings of the EDSIG Conferenc, 2016-11)
Concept map (CM) is an easy to learn tool and can be effectively used to represent knowledge. Many
disciplines have adopted CMs as teaching and learning tools to improve learning effectiveness, even
though its application ...
Using a Semi-Realistic Database to Support a Database Course
(Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), 2013)
A common problem for university relational database courses is to construct effective databases for instructions and assignments. Highly simplified "toy" databases are easily available for teaching, learning, and practicing. ...
Concept mapping in computer science education
(Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2017)
Concept Map (CM) is a graphical tool for organizing and structuring knowledge by depicting concepts as nodes, and relationships between concepts as edges. It can be used as an effective tool for teaching, learning, and ...
Assessment Model and Practices for Computing and Information Systems Programs
(ISECON 2010 Proceedings, 2010)
Assessment of educational programs is one of the important means used in academia for accountability, accreditation, and improvement of program quality. The assessment practices, guidelines, and requirements are very broad ...