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Practical Solution to Assuring
Student Preparedness for
Advanced Information
Science Courses
Susan Carbone
Hartwick College
Oneonta, New York
Introduction
• Students are often compelled to enroll
in advanced Information Science
classes prior to having had the
opportunity to fulfill the prerequisites.
• Proposed solution addresses this issue
and offers a method which will enable
these students to acquire the needed
skills prior to beginning the advanced
coursework.
Information Science Major
• Core Requirements
– Introduction to Programming (Java)
– Visual Basic .Net Programming
– Advanced Programming Techniques
(Java)
– Database Management
Possible Solutions
• Require the student to wait out the cycle and take
the courses in the proper order
• Allow the student to take the prerequisite as an
independent or directed study while simultaneously
taking the advanced course
• Allow the student to take the advanced course
without the basics hoping they will be able to make
the adjustment
• Have the student wait, take the prerequisite when
next offered and then allow them to take the
advanced course as an independent or directed
study
Fall 2006
• Advanced Web Development
Prerequisites
– Visual Basic .Net Programming
– Database Management
– Systems Analysis and Design
Practical Solution – mini course
Student
Missing Prerequisites
Database
James
VB.Net
Summer Study
Database
VB.Net
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Joe
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Lauren
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mini
online
Monica
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Rachel
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mini
Implementation – Spring 2006
• Designed mini courses to cover the first
four weeks of material
• Set up online Blackboard site for each
course
• Met with each student
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Installed software
Enrolled students on Blackboard
Syllabus
Textbooks
Visual Basic .Net
• Introduction to VB.Net programming
• Developing a VB.Net Application
• Using Forms and Controls
• Writing VB.Net Code
• Conditional Structure
• Repetition Structure
Database Management
• Database vocabulary, concepts and
design tools
• Normalizing the database table
structures
• Implementing the database design
Results
Student
Completed Summer mini
courses
Database
James
Joe
VB.Net
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Lauren
Monica
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Rachel
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Conclusion
• Mini courses
– Summer for Fall semester
– January for Spring semester
• Proactive approach
• Student success