Opinions, Hopes, and Expectations of CS&E Students, A Case Study in Academic Skills and Hidden Curriculum

Reference:

Matti Järvisalo. Opinions, hopes, and expectations of CS&E students, a case study in academic skills and hidden curriculum. In Tapio Salakoski, Tomi Mäntylä, and Mikko Laakso, editors, Koli Calling 2005 – Proceedings of the Fifth Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education, volume 41 of TUCS General Publications, pages 157–161. Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2006. ISBN 951-29-3006-4.

Abstract:

We present first results on a questionnaire concerning the variety of skills taught in university-level education from the viewpoint of the students. The motivation for the study is to investigate how students perceive their studies with respect to the skills they assume to be important during their forthcoming careers. The underlying question is: ``Is a wider array of skills than those considered in core curriculum being intentionally taught in university-level CS studies to the needed extent?'' The questionnaire was aimed at undergraduate and Master's level engineering students at a leading technical university in Finland. Here we concentrate on students of computer science. Based on the data, our discussion concentrates especially on two groups of skills, interaction skills and basic sciences.

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{Jarvisalo:Koli05,
    author = {Matti J\"arvisalo},
    booktitle = {Koli Calling 2005 -- Proceedings of the Fifth Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education},
    editor = {Tapio Salakoski and Tomi M{\"a}ntyl{\"a} and Mikko Laakso},
    note = {ISBN 951-29-3006-4},
    pages = {157--161},
    publisher = {Turku Centre for Computer Science},
    series = {TUCS General Publications},
    title = {Opinions, Hopes, and Expectations of {CS}\&{E} Students, A Case Study in Academic Skills and Hidden Curriculum},
    volume = {41},
    year = {2006},
}

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