A framework for describing and comparing courses and curricula

TY - CONF

T1 - A framework for describing and comparing courses and curricula

AU - Pedroni, Michela

AU - Oriol, Manuel

AU - Meyer, Bertrand

PY - 2007/6/1

Y1 - 2007/6/1

N2 - Curriculum and course planning is a key step in developing quality educational programs, but current practices very often lack a systematic approach. This article addresses this issue by refining and expanding the concept of Testable, Reusable Unit of Cognition (Truc). The methodology allows modeling courses and verifying compliance of a given course to a given description. It also makes it possible to describe precisely what students have previously learned and, as a result, adapt the teaching to their specific needs. The article presents a case study of comparing a subset of two introductory programming textbooks and describes the application TrucStudio that supports the methodology.

AB - Curriculum and course planning is a key step in developing quality educational programs, but current practices very often lack a systematic approach. This article addresses this issue by refining and expanding the concept of Testable, Reusable Unit of Cognition (Truc). The methodology allows modeling courses and verifying compliance of a given course to a given description. It also makes it possible to describe precisely what students have previously learned and, as a result, adapt the teaching to their specific needs. The article presents a case study of comparing a subset of two introductory programming textbooks and describes the application TrucStudio that supports the methodology.

KW - course comparison,curriculum design,knowledge modeling

U2 - 10.1145/1269900.1268824

DO - 10.1145/1269900.1268824

M3 - Paper

SP - 131

ER -