Tendencies in Database Learning for Undergraduate Students: Learning In-Depth or Getting the Work Done?

Emilia-Loredana Pop, Manuela-Andreea Petrescu

2023

Abstract

This study explores and analyzes the learning tendencies of second-year students enrolled in different lines of study related to the Databases course. There were 79 answers collected from 191 enrolled students that were analyzed and interpreted using thematic analysis. The participants in the study provided two sets of answers, anonymously collected (at the beginning and at the end of the course), thus allowing us to have clear data regarding their interests and to find out their tendencies. We looked into their expectations and if they were met; we concluded that the students want to learn only database basics. Their main challenges were related to the course homework. We combined the information and the answers related to 1) other database-related topics that they would like to learn, 2) how they plan to use the acquired information, and 3) overall interest in learning other database-related topics. The conclusion was that students prefer learning only the basic information that could help them achieve their goals: creating an application or using it at work. For these students, ”Getting the work done” is preferred to ”Learning in-depth”.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pop E. and Petrescu M. (2023). Tendencies in Database Learning for Undergraduate Students: Learning In-Depth or Getting the Work Done?. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-647-7, SciTePress, pages 750-757. DOI: 10.5220/0012008100003464

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase23,
author={Emilia-Loredana Pop and Manuela-Andreea Petrescu},
title={Tendencies in Database Learning for Undergraduate Students: Learning In-Depth or Getting the Work Done?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2023},
pages={750-757},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012008100003464},
isbn={978-989-758-647-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Tendencies in Database Learning for Undergraduate Students: Learning In-Depth or Getting the Work Done?
SN - 978-989-758-647-7
AU - Pop E.
AU - Petrescu M.
PY - 2023
SP - 750
EP - 757
DO - 10.5220/0012008100003464
PB - SciTePress