• DocumentCode
    3475546
  • Title

    On issues and effects of education using qualification exam measures in practical training programs for IT engineers

  • Author

    Fukuoka, Kazuki ; Ohtsuki, Kazuhiro

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Inf. Technol., Kobe Inst. of Comput., Kobe, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    20-22 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    270
  • Lastpage
    274
  • Abstract
    Motivated by the trend in industry to seek qualitative, not only quantitative, qualifications from applicants, we have investigated the training of IT professionals from the point of view of practical education. From experimental studies we have found that qualification exam scores do not reflect sufficiently practical abilities. Based on our findings, we propose some possibly effective ways to re-use some exam exam questions to more efficiently evaluate and train IT professionals.
  • Keywords
    information science education; information technology; professional aspects; IT engineers; IT professionals; education; qualification exam measures; qualification exam scores; training programs; Correlation; Educational institutions; Games; Information technology; Iron; Market research;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    MOOC Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE), 2013 IEEE International Conference in
  • Conference_Location
    Jaipur
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1625-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITE.2013.6756348
  • Filename
    6756348