tutorial: how to map your is program to is 2002 john h. reynolds george nezlek school of cis, grand...

TUTORIAL:HOW TO MAP YOUR IS

PROGRAM TO IS 2002

John H. Reynolds George Nezlek

School of CIS, Grand Valley State University

Allendale, MI 49401 USA

Jeffrey P. LandryHerbert E. Longenecker,

Jr.University of South

AlabamaSchool of CIS

Mobile, AL 36688

Reynolds, Nezlek, Landry, & Longenecker - ISECON 2004

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Introduction

The tutorial will guide faculty participants through the process of mapping an IS curriculum. The software is accessible from (http://www.iseducation.org).


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Overview The tutorial will consist of:

Demonstrated mapping scenarios Demonstrations of ad hoc scenarios

suggested by you An opportunity for you map your

curriculum


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Mapping Scenarios Several mapping scenarios will be

demonstrated Each scenario consists of 3 parts:

a mapping task a specific example of the task A demonstration carrying out the

example using software


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Mapping Scenario 1 Task:

An instructor wants to map an existing course that she teaches at her school.

Example: Pamela Smith wants to map the ISC

434 course, entitled Advanced Databases. Pam has taught ISC 434 for longer than anyone on the faculty at USouthAl.


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An instructor has taught a course for a long time but is using the IS 2002 model curriculum for the first time. She wants to identify all learning units in the model that are taught in her course.

Example: Pam Smith, who has taught ISC 434 for five

years, asks “What learning units do I cover in my course? I know it has a lot of database and database programming topics.”


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Mapping Scenario 2 (cont.) Example (cont.):

…Pam, with text book, assignments, and syllabus in front of her, thinks about what she consistently demands of her students each and every semester in ISC 434. She has a number of topics in database and database programming in mind. A priority for Pam is to map those objectives that are taught in the most depth. These objectives, which include data modeling and query writing, contribute most to her students’ exit level skills.


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For all LUs taught in a course, an instructor wants to describe the LUs in terms of local course objectives and educational depth.

Example: Pam Smith has selected 8 LUs that relate

to her ISC 434, but that vary in terms of educational depth, and are taught differently than the way stated in IS 2002.


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Mapping Scenario 3 (cont.) Example (cont.)

Pam has mapped LU IS 8.88-IS Data Modeling, goal=to develop skill with data modeling which describe databases. Specifically, Pam has a syllabus objective which states “Develop data models of recursive supertype/subtype relationships” in which students complete written homework exercises, drawing models based on problem scenarios.


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Identifying non-mapped learning units, i.e. those that are not covered by a local course.

Example: Pam Smith knows her ISC 434 course

covers database topics and is curious to discover which database LUs she is not covering. Maybe she missed something.


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A dean or department chair wonders “what learning units are not covered in our curriculum…at all?”

Example: Roy Daigle, ISC coordinator at USouthAl,

wants to know what learning units are not covered at all, by any ISC course in the curriculum. Perhaps his curriculum is deficient in some area.


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Schools wish to view curriculum mapping data in customized ways (eg. formats, calculations, aggregations, graphs).

Example: Daigle says “I want to see the missing

learning units in list form. Can you put them in a spreadsheet?”


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How does a local curriculum “add up” in terms of teaching the IS 2002 model curriculum?

Example Roy Daigle wants to get a brief

overview of how his ISC curriculum at USouthAl covers IS 2002.


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A department chair wants to review the relative breadth and depth of coverage of IS 2002 for all local courses.

Example: The curriculum at USouthAl has 15 courses

that have been mapped to the model curriculum. Roy wonders how they compare to each other in IS 2002 coverage? “Do all our courses map well to IS 2002?”


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Ad hoc scenarios Task:

Does someone have an interesting mapping task?

Example: …that we can use to create an

example?


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Map your curriculum Now, can you get started by

mapping your own curriculum. Pick one or two courses and try it.

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