ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Teaching Programming via Scratch on Problem Solving Skills: A Discussion from Learners' Perspective
Author: Kalelioglu, Filiz
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Programming,Elementary School Students,Problem Solving,Mixed Methods Research,Self Efficacy,Teaching Methods,Pretests Posttests,Foreign Countries,Computer Science Education,Outcomes of Education,Focus Groups,Interviews,Observation

Computer programming is perceived as an important competence for the development of problem solving skills in addition to logical reasoning. Hence, its integration throughout all educational levels, as well as the early ages, is considered valuable and research studies are carried out to explore the phenomenon in more detail. In light of these facts, this study is an exploratory effort to investigate the effect of Scratch programming on 5th grade primary school students' problem solving skills. Moreover, the researchers wondered what 5th grade primary school students think about programming. This study was carried out in an explanatory sequential mixed methods design with the participation of 49 primary school students. According to the quantitative results, programming in Scratch platform did not cause any significant differences in the problem solving skills of the primary school students. There is only a non-significant increase in the mean of the factor of &quot;self-confidence in their problem solving ability&quot;. When the thoughts of the primary students were considered, it can be clearly stated that all the students liked programming and wanted to improve their programming. Finally, most of the students found the Scratch platform easy to use.
Characteristics of Information Systems and Business Informatics Study Programs
Author: Helfert, Markus
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Systems,Business Administration Education,Information Science Education,Educational Practices,Profiles,Basic Skills,Questionnaires,Interviews,Enrollment Trends,Program Length,Curriculum Development,Course Content,Fused Curriculum,Correlation,Program Descriptions,College Programs,Workshops,Teacher Surveys

Over the last decade there is an intensive discussion within the Information Systems (IS) and Informatics community about the characteristics and identity of the discipline. Simultaneously with the discussion, there is an ongoing debate on essential skills and capabilities of IS and Business Informatics graduates as well as the profile of IS programs. With this paper we recognize the need for different IS perspectives resulting in diverse study profiles. We developed a framework for structuring information systems study programs and characterized some of the differences in study programs. The results from this study are based on a survey and workshops with domain exerts, both from academia and practice. The descriptive results from the survey are presented, and show the diversity of study programs, both on master and bachelor level. As an example for an IS profile we summarize a reference structure for Business Informatics study programs, which aims to provide guidance for curriculum development and to stimulate further debate on IS curriculum development.
Six Key Topics for Automated Assessment Utilisation and Acceptance
Author: Reiners, Torsten
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Assessment,Automation,Essays,Grading,Computer Attitudes,Mixed Methods Research,National Surveys,Online Surveys,Student Surveys,Teacher Surveys,College Students,College Faculty,Computer Software,Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Barriers

Automated assessment technologies have been used in education for decades (e.g., computerised multiple choice tests). In contrast, Automated Essay Grading (AEG) technologies: have existed for decades; are &quot;good in theory&quot; (e.g., as accurate as humans, temporally and financially efficient, and can enhance formative feedback), and yet; are ostensibly used comparatively infrequently in Australian universities. To empirically examine these experiential observations we conducted a national survey to explore the use of automated assessment in Australian universities and examine why adoption of AEG is limited. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected in an online survey from a sample of 265 staff and students from 5 Australian universities. The type of assessment used by the greatest proportion of respondents was essays/reports (82.6%), however very few respondents had used AEG (3.8%). Recommendations are made regarding methods to promote technology utilisation, including the use of innovative dissemination channels such as 3D Virtual Worlds.
Performance Evaluation of Indian Technical Institutions Using PROMETHEE-GAIA Approach
Author: Ranjan, Rajeev
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Vocational Education,Technical Education,Technical Institutes,College Graduates,Job Placement,Institutional Evaluation,Evaluation Methods,Decision Making

It has now become an important issue to evaluate the performance of technical institutions to develop better research and enrich the existing teaching processes. The results of such performance appraisal would serve as a reference point for decisions to choose a particular institution, hire manpower, and provide financial support for the betterment of students and underperforming institutions. The performance of institutions responsible for promotion of technical education in a vast country, like India also needs to be assessed for its journey to share a major role in global economy. In this paper, an integrated approach combining PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluation) and GAIA (Geometrical Analysis for Interactive Aid) methods is applied for evaluating the performance of 20 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India with respect to nine pivotal criteria. It is observed that NIT, Tiruchirappalli and NIT, Warangal are the two best performers based on the last five years data. On the other hand, NIT, Patna takes the last position in the ranking list of 20 NITs suggesting allocation of more resources for its efficient management and subsequent development. Placement of the graduated students from those NITs is found to be the most important criterion.
Digital Footprints in the Context of Professional Ethics
Author: Kligiene, Stanislava Nerute
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Networks,Data Collection,Privacy,Computer Mediated Communication,Internet,Ethics,Information Technology,Communications,Access to Information,Interaction,Information Systems,Computer Security

The paper surveys the risks and benefits which the user faces in the networked environment and how those challenges can be overcome. The question is how to measure the potential or benefits of such a complex phenomenon--the collaborative cross-domains in social media. As one of the solutions we propose to consider this in the context of digital tools and the entities involved into cooperation-collaboration: core researches, engineers, developing information systems and tools, marketing technologists, users-consumers of services and products. The ways of collecting data and the measures for protecting privacy issues of the data collected online, as they were applied during the last two decades are overviewed in this paper. There is no universal law protecting the privacy of online users in the global world and hardly will it ever be. For a while, only the awareness of the users, the professional Codes of Ethics and fairness of firms involved into collaboration could help them avoid pitfalls hidden in social media. The summary table shows at a glance benefits and dangers met in social by its explorers and users.
Application of Interactive Classification System in University Study Course Comparison
Author: Birzniece, Ilze
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Classification,Accuracy,Higher Education,Exchange Programs,Information Systems,Management Systems,Curriculum Development,Computer Assisted Instruction,Knowledge Management,Computer Software,Foreign Countries,Universities,Course Descriptions,International Cooperation,Business Administration Education,Information Science Education,Comparative Education,Student Mobility

The growing amount of information in the world has increased the need for computerized classification of different objects. This situation is present in higher education as well where the possibility of effortless detection of similarity between different study courses would give the opportunity to organize student exchange programmes effectively and facilitate curriculum management and development. This area which currently relies on manual time-consuming expert activities could benefit from application of smartly adapted machine learning technologies. Data in this problem domain is complex leading to inability for automatic classification approaches to always reach the desired result in terms of classification accuracy. Therefore, our approach suggests an automated/semi-automated classification solution, which incorporates both machine learning facilities and interactive involvement of a domain expert for improving classification results. The system's prototype has been implemented and experiments are carried out. This interactive classification system allows to classify educational data, which often comes in unstructured or semi-structured, incomplete and/or insufficient form, thus reducing the number of misclassified instances significantly in comparison with the automatic machine learning approach. [A bibliography is included.]
Preparation of Speciality-Integrated Assignments in Informatics Study Courses at the Higher Education Level
Author: Vitinš, Maris
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Assignments,Information Science,Data Processing,Data Analysis,Specialization,Standards,Statistics,Periodicals,Allied Health Occupations,Social Sciences,Evaluation Methods,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Integrated Activities,Documentation,Technology Uses in Education,Research Methodology,Higher Education,Student Evaluation

Information and communications technologies today are used in virtually any university course when students prepare their papers. ICT is also needed after people are graduated from university and enter the job market. This author is an instructor in the field of informatics related to health care and social sciences at the Riga Stradins University. In practice, he has found that after completing informatics courses (IC) at the university level, students and practicing specialists at various levels find it hard to decide on what data processing method to use in order to interpret extracted results in the relevant area of specialisation. There are various data processing methods in the literature, presented individually and without adequate linkages. The author has found in practice that when such assignments are handled, there is closer linkage among data processing methods than the literature would suggest. In this article, the authors deal with the following issues: (1) how assignments given during informatics courses at the university level can be integrated with the relevant area of specialisation by making use of professional standards, guidebooks to studies in other courses, descriptions and scholarly publications so as to help students and practicing specialists to take decisions on data processing methods, their use, and the interpretation of their results; (2) how to ensure that educational data related to the area of specialisation are obtained on the basis of statistics in scholarly publications; (3) what kind of content is to be used for students of health care and the social sciences; (4) how to choose methods to resolve data processing issues; and (5) what are the recommended principles for evaluating the knowledge, skills and talents of students? The views that are presented in this paper are those of the authors or of other authors.
Programming: Teachers and Pedagogical Content Knowledge in the Netherlands
Author: Saeli, Mara
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Programming,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Secondary School Science,Secondary School Teachers,Scores,Textbook Content,Textbook Evaluation,Teacher Background,Trend Analysis,Correlation,Information Science,Information Science Education,Online Surveys,Knowledge Level,Measures (Individuals),Foreign Countries,Teacher Competency Testing

In this article we report about a study to assess Dutch teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), with special focus on programming as a topic in secondary school Informatics education. For this research, we developed an online research instrument: the Online Teacher PCK Analyser (OTPA). The results show that Dutch teachers' PCK scores between low and medium. Also we enquired whether there is any relation between teachers' PCK and the textbooks they use by comparing the results of this study with those of a previous one in which the PCK of textbooks was assessed. The results show that there is no strong relation. Finally, we looked for trends between teachers' PCK and their educational backgrounds, as most of the Dutch teachers have a different background than Informatics. The results show that also in this case there is no strong relation.
Distributed Social Bookmarking Web Service Architecture. SOAP vs. iCamp FeedBack
Author: Afonin, Andrej
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Web Sites,Indexing,Internet,Shared Resources and Services,Computer Software,Information Systems,Web 2.0 Technologies,Programming Languages

Social bookmarking services became very popular recently. Easy of use, possibility to share and discover in addition to accessibility though the Internet, turns social bookmarking systems into powerful repository of shared knowledge. Obviously this attracts attention of educational institutions and recently such systems started to appear under their domains. However, usually these systems stay separate and limit their users by their bounds. It means that separate systems' students could reach each other and use knowledge base, aggregated in other systems. On the other side, institutions usually want to own this assembled data and do not give away collected knowledge base to third side. This issue does not allow building social bookmarking systems that can be used by multi-institutional users. An idea is to develop distributed system where every institution will have their own database, but, on the other hand, will allow exploring and using data from other network sources. This article overviews possible distributed system architecture models and suggests a solution that will eliminate such service issues. Moreover, two different approaches towards distributed services communication are evaluated in this article: SOAP vs. iCamp FeedBack. SOAP is a lightweight XML based protocol for exchanging structured information between distributed applications. FeedBack is another model that uses plain RSS feed to transmit data. Both models are tested and evaluated in this article.
The Grades Transfer from One Grading Scale to Other Algorithmization
Author: Lieponiene, Jurgita
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Grades (Scholastic),Grading,Outcomes of Education,Foreign Countries,Transfer Policy,College Credits,Models,Probability,Mathematical Models

The article presents the consideration of grading scales used for education outcomes in different countries, describes likeness and differences of applied grading scales. Application of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) grading scale is investigated according of the analysis of scientific literature as well as cases of its mistaken application. The article provides a model for grades transfer from one scale into another, specifies the results of experimental testing of the introduced model, and analyzes cases of mistaken grades transfer.
Investigating Technical and Pedagogical Usability Issues of Collaborative Learning with Wikis
Author: Hadjerrouit, Said
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Usability,Web Sites,Teacher Education,Collaborative Writing,Units of Study,Teaching Methods,Case Studies,Educational Benefits,Web 2.0 Technologies,Animals,Space Sciences,Nutrition,Dietetics,Student Projects,Questionnaires,Self Evaluation (Individuals),Student Attitudes,Peer Evaluation,Feedback (Response),Efficiency,Student Needs,Student Motivation

Wikis have been recently promoted as tools that foster collaborative learning. However, there has been little research devoted to the criteria that are suitable to address issues pertinent to collaborative learning. This paper proposes a set of criteria to explore technical and pedagogical usability issues of collaborative learning with wikis. The criteria are then used to evaluate students' collaborative writing activities. The units of study are wikis that groups of students developed collaboratively using MediaWiki. This paper also reports on technical and pedagogical implications for the use of wikis as collaborative learning tools in teacher education.
Comparing the Efficiency of Different Approaches to Teach Informatics at Secondary Schools
Author: Steer, Christoph
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Information Science,Computer Science Education,Knowledge Level,Secondary Schools,Secondary Education,Secondary School Students,Comparative Analysis,Competition,Scores

Each of the 16 federal states of Germany has its own school system and also its own policy to integrate informatics, computer science or ICT into this system. Till present there aren't any tests of students' knowledge on a nation-wide level. Therefore nation-wide or international contests currently offer the only opportunities to compare the knowledge of the participating students on a large scale level. By evaluating the overall performance of the students of different federal states, we were able to compare the effectiveness of different approaches of teaching Informatics at secondary schools.
Students' Activity Focus in Online Asynchronous Peer Learning Forums
Author: Gaspar, Alessio
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Asynchronous Communication,Qualitative Research,Learning Activities,Classification,Online Courses,Programming,Computer Science Education,Information Technology,Barriers,Academic Failure,Academic Achievement,Tests,Scores,Statistical Analysis,Introductory Courses,Management Systems,Peer Relationship,Computer Mediated Communication,Program Design,Course Descriptions,Teaching Methods,Universities

This qualitative study explores how using Peer Learning Forums (PLF) in an online asynchronous computer programming course can be analyzed to derive information about Student Activity Focus (SAF) for adult Information Technology students. Three instruments are proposed to assist instructors classify questions posted by students on these forums, obtain easy quantitative measures of their SAF, and use it to gain a better understanding of the type of learning barriers they are encountering. In addition, we also look at the difference in SAF between passing and failing students based on their exam performance. The PLF learning activity and the classification instruments are easily adaptable to other disciplines or courses and allow instructors and students alike to gain a better understanding of what kind of participation is helpful in online asynchronous discussion forums.
Learning Content and Software Evaluation and Personalisation Problems
Author: Kurilovas, Eugenijus
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Software,Course Content,Evaluation Methods,Electronic Learning,Educational Technology,Resource Units,Program Effectiveness,Program Evaluation,Information Management,Criteria,Models,Open Source Technology,Simulated Environment,Technology Uses in Education

The paper aims to analyse several scientific approaches how to evaluate, implement or choose learning content and software suitable for personalised users/learners needs. Learning objects metadata customisation method as well as the Method of multiple criteria evaluation and optimisation of learning software represented by the experts' additive utility function are analysed in more detail. The value of the experts' additive utility function depends on the learning software quality evaluation criteria, their ratings and weights. The Method is based on the software engineering Principle which claims that one should evaluate the learning software using the two different groups of quality evaluation criteria--&quot;internal quality&quot; criteria defining the general software quality aspects, and &quot;quality in use&quot; criteria defining software personalisation possibilities. The application of the Method and Principle for the evaluation and optimisation of learning software is innovative in technology enhanced learning theory and practice. Application of the method of the experts' (decision makers') subjectivity minimisation analysed in the paper is also a new aspect in technology enhanced learning science. All aforementioned approaches propose an efficient practical instrumentality how to evaluate, design or choose learning content and software suitable for personalised learners needs.
Application of Cloud Computing at KTU: MS Live@Edu Case
Author: Miseviciene, Regina
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Management,Information Storage,College Students,Foreign Countries,Computer Uses in Education,Computer Mediated Communication,Teacher Student Relationship,Internet,Social Networks,Web Based Instruction,Delivery Systems,Case Studies

Cloud computing is a significant alternative in today's educational perspective. The technology gives the students and teachers the opportunity to quickly access various application platforms and resources through the web pages on-demand. Unfortunately, not all educational institutions often have an ability to take full advantages of the newest information technology. The paper analyzes possibilities of the cloud computing technology that can help educational institutions to support the process of teaching and learning. There is also presented a cloud computing technology based solution introducing the MS &quot;Live@Edu&quot; environment as a means of communication and collaboration between lecturers and students. The authors have a successful experience of using MS Live@Edu during 3 academic years for delivering about 10 unique courses for approximately 700 students in Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). The use of MS Live@Edu environment for educational purposes is summarized by explaining the advantages of cloud computing gained both by lecturers and students.
Effects of Using Model Robots in the Education of Programming
Author: Pásztor, Attila
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Robotics,Programming,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Learning Processes,Teaching Methods,Constructivism (Learning),Educational Practices,Technology Uses in Education,Outcome Measures,Self Concept,Learning Activities,Questionnaires,Self Concept Measures,Likert Scales,Instructional Effectiveness,Hypothesis Testing,Educational Technology,College Students,Foreign Countries

In this article we try to show how new devices and methods can help in the education of programming. At Kecskemét College programmable mobile robots and instead of behavioral, the constructivist pedagogical methods were used. Our experiments have proved our hypothesis as the improved new methodical education using devices can give more practical programming knowledge, increases the attitude towards programming and helps to have positive programming self-image. The results of the experimental and control groups were compared at the beginning and at the end of semester, when the programming knowledge and motives were measured. During the learning process only the experimental groups used devices and new methods.