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A framework for describing and comparing courses and curricula

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Michela Pedroni,

Manuel Oriol,

Bertrand MeyerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 3

Pages 131 - 135

https://doi.org/10.1145/1269900.1268824

Published: 25 June 2007 Publication History

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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.

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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 3

Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE'07)

September 2007

366 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1269900

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ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2007
386 pages
ISBN:9781595936103
DOI:10.1145/1268784
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Rochester Institute of Technology

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