Louie Zhu, School of Informatics and Computing
Principal Investigator: Louie Zhu, senior lecturer, Department of Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
Co-Principal Investigators: Fawzi BenMessaoud, lecturer, and Ran Chang, lecturer, Department of Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
Project Title: Enhancing the Informatics Curriculum by Bridging Signature Assignments and Assessing Learning Outcomes of Three Required Core Courses
Funding Level: $15,000
Abstract:
This project is aimed to enhance the Informatics undergraduate curriculum by bridging three core courses with signature projects and by assessing their learning outcomes at both the course-level and program-level and their alignments with the IUPUI Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success (PLUS). The three courses in the project are INFO-I 202 Social Informatics, INFO-I 211 Information Infrastructure II, and INFO-I 421 Applications of Data Mining. These data-centered courses cover several important aspects of solving data-related problems: data discovery storage, analysis, mining, and presentation. Integrating these three courses with signature projects will create pathways among the three courses and seamlessly bridge them to allow students to understand and develop solutions to large-scale problems that are more complex than can be solved with skills learned from a single course. Recently, the program-level learning outcomes (PLOs) of the Informatics B.S. program were revised and updated. The three courses will be revised, redesigned, and assessed with the updated PLOs. Assessment plans will be developed to determine how the course learning outcomes are aligned with PLOs and campus PLUS. We will then use the assessment results to further revise the course materials, pedagogy, and assessment tools to improve course quality and student learning.