Summative evaluation of a course of study in computer science

✍ Scribed by Kurt Ulbricht

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 498 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00139785

✦ Synopsis

This article is the report of a program evaluation of a course of study in Computer Science (Informatics) which is based on objective data only. This study encompasses the description of the present status as well as the comparison of the program over a fixed period of time (from October 1973 to October 1979).

The point of commencement is the development of the rates of academic success beginning with the 1973 class -the first class trained at the Faculty of Computer Science (Informatics) of the University of the Federal Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich -up to the 1979 class.

Looking for the main influences, which presumably have given rise to this development, four environmental factors have been analyzed:

1. the development and improvement of the curriculum; 2. the qualification of the candidates wishing to enrol for this highly mathematical course of study; 3. the increase in the faculty staff; and finally 4. the correlations of the curriculum and the qualification of the students.