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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Investigating Suggestions for Increasing the Throughput Rate of IS Students |
| Elsa Naudé and Tertia Hörne |
| University of South Africa, South Africa |
| University of South Africa, South Africa |
| During the past few years science faculties at tertiary education institutions in South Africa have had to face |
| increasing pressure from national as well as provincial government bodies to improve the student throughput rate. |
| Various suggestions have been made to achieve this goal. This paper investigates the viability of two of these |
| suggestions for solving the throughput problem. It is part of a larger reflexive research project investigating various |
| aspects of the teaching and learning of Computing and IS through distance education. Information from the |
| assignment records and the examination marks of students for a specific Computer Science second year module |
| with a practical component was used for this study. |
| Keywords: Education, programming, assignments, pass rate, distance education |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
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