Muhammad Asif Khan and Abdelrahman Almulhim
Keywords: Alignment, assessment, information system, assessment strategy, foundation course.
Abstract: Information systems are being widely used in industry around the globe and demand of graduates in this field is increasing with the development in technologies. Universities in Saudi Arabia have also realized this fact and now introducing different programs to prepare students to meet industry requirements. It has been observed students do not show impressive performance in introductory course of information systems program despite effective teaching. There are various reasons for student poor performance including teaching strategy, assessments methods or personal constraints. The current study is about a foundation course in information program at our department. In order to address this problem, we have used a quantitative methodology to collect data and presented an alignment assessment strategy to evaluate students’ performance. The strategy needs an alignment among learning outcomes, teaching strategies and assessments. Any misalignment in these components directly impacts student performance. We implemented this strategy in our foundation course and used different techniques to assess student performance at the end of the course. We present results and discuss improvement of student performance.
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