The survey measuring the informatics skills of the entering students at Budapest Tech, Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering

Author

Kiss, Gábor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Machine & Syst. Eng., Budapest Tech, Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2009

fDate

25-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

397

Abstract

I asked the students to fill out a Web based Informatics Test on the first week of the semester. This test was supposed to show the level of their computer knowledge which can be the basic in higher education. The results show the students do not get all the cognition that is specified in the National Ground Curriculum, for instance they have obtrusive lacks in the field of programming, database management, which should be compensated in higher education without relying on previous studies. According to the comparison of the three majors of the faculty it becomes obvious there is no correlation between the informatics skills and the applied major.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; student experiments; Banki Donat Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering; Budapest Tech; National Ground Curriculum; Web based informatics test; computer knowledge; database management; higher education; informatics skills measurement; student entrance; Computer science education; Educational programs; Informatics; Mechanical variables measurement; Object oriented databases; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Safety; Testing; Text processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems and Informatics, 2009. SISY '09. 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Subotica

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5348-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5349-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SISY.2009.5291125

Filename

5291125