On the Evaluation of a Structural Information Metric for Syllabus Suitability

Author

Toptsis, Anestis A. ; Semidey, Jose

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

We present an evaluation of a method that can be used to gauge the suitability of a syllabus among several alternative syllabi for the same knowledge subject. The method can be useful in aiding to adopt a particular lesson plan for actual instruction, instead of adopting a lesson plan of unknown educational impact. Two limited knowledge areas are chosen from computer science and mathematics and our evaluation is done with human volunteers who have knowledge and (some) work experience with the tested knowledge areas. Our findings provide evidence that the tested method may serve as a viable approach for judging the suitability of alternative lesson plans.

Keywords

computer science education; educational computing; information management; mathematics; computer science; educational impact; knowledge subject; lesson plan; mathematics; structural information metric; syllabus suitability; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Computer science education; Equations; Heart; Humans; Information theory; Knowledge engineering; Materials testing; Mathematics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5941-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5943-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2010.5480372

Filename

5480372