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Comparing top-down with bottom-up approaches: teaching data modeling.
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Kung, Hsiang-Jui Kung, Leeann |
| Abstract | Conceptual database design is a difficult task for novice database designers, such as students, and is also therefore particularly challenging for database educators to teach. In the teaching of database design, two general approaches are frequently emphasized: top-down and bottom-up. In this paper, we present an empirical comparison of students ’ performance between these two approaches in a conceptual data modeling exercise. Our results indicate that, while prior database education had a significant effect on the quality of design performance, the chosen approach did not. The findings suggest that database educators should integrate both top-down and bottom-up approaches in database design showing the differences and similarities between the two approaches to improve students ’ learning of data modeling. |
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| Subject Keyword | Bottom-up Approach Teaching Data Modeling Database Design Database Educator Empirical Comparison Novice Database Designer Conceptual Database Design Difficult Task Design Performance Prior Database Education Conceptual Data Modeling Exercise Student Performance General Approach Chosen Approach Significant Effect |
| Content Type | Text |
