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Title:
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VISUALIZING THE SYNTAX OF GRADUAL TRANSITIONS IN TEACHING DATABASE MODELING |
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Author(s):
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Adi Katz |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-74-6 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell |
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Year:
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2018 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Database Conceptual Modeling, TSSL, Pedagogy, Visualization |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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228 |
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Last Page:
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232 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Database conceptual modeling is an essential skill for Information Systems (IS) practitioners, but is a complex cognitive activity that is error prone. Finding an appropriate pedagogy to deliver the topic to novice database designers has been a challenge for IS educators. TSSL, a model that is known in the area of human-computer interactions (HCI) is applied in the area of relational database schema modeling as a theoretical framework, to explain a pedagogic approach of visually emphasizing the syntax of the hierarchical nature of schemas, in the aim of reducing the potential cognitive complexity of novice database designers. The approach puts focus on the syntactic level of TSSL, to visually emphasize gradual transitions between hierarchic levels of the schema. While this paper explains the approach, at the next phase an empirical experiment will test the effectiveness of the approach by comparing the performance and attitudes of students that are exposed to the syntax of gradual transitions in hierarchical schema structure, to those who are not. |
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