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Tiêu đề

What do computer scientists do? A survey of CS and non-CS liberal arts faculty

Tác giả

Fidoten H.; Spacco J.

Năm xuất bản

2012

Source title

Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1145/2325296.2325362

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864715449&doi=10.1145%2f2325296.2325362&partnerID=40&md5=18e954fb6db204d9017d947d780a95c3

Tóm tắt

We asked all of the liberal arts faculty who advise undergraduates on course selection at the 14 colleges in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest a series of questions regarding their perceptions of the personality traits of Computer Science (CS) students, topics they think are covered in CS classes, and their overall impressions of CS. Our goal was to assess empirically the hypotheses that (1) many non-CS faculty do not really know what computer science is, and (2) many non-CS faculty are unaware of the differences between CS and Information Technology (IT). We received over 250 survey responses, which revealed that, among non-CS faculty, only 9% disagree or are neutral that CS should even be part of a liberal arts curriculum, but 32% think CS students learn to administer computers and computer networks, while 34% believe that CS students are taught to use Microsoft products in the classroom. However, over 95% of non-CS faculty also recognize the importance of both programming and algorithms to the study of computer science. The overall data suggests that a majority of non-CS faculty in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest have a a basic understanding of CS, while the remainder have an overly broad definition of CS (i.e. they think that CS includes IT). © 2012 ACM.

Từ khóa

cs education; cs education research; survey

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