Computing is not a rock band: student understanding of the computing disciplines

Authors:
Faith-Michael E. Uzoka;Randy Connolly;Marc Schroeder;Namrata Khemka;Janet Miller
Affiliations:
Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada;Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada;Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada;Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada;Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper reports the initial findings of a multi-year study that is surveying major and non-major students' understanding of the different computing disciplines. This study is based on work originally conducted by Courte and Bishop-Clark from 2009 [7] and then repeated by Battig and Shariq in 2011 [3], but which uses a broadened study instrument that provided additional forms of analysis. Data was collected from 199 students from a single institution who were computer science, information systems/information technology and non-major students taking a variety of introductory computing courses. Results show that undergraduate computing students are more likely to rate tasks as being better fits to computer disciplines than are their non-major (NM) peers. Uncertainty among respondents did play a large role in the results and is discussed alongside implications for teaching and further research.