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Tracing Back the Chain: Cognitive Pre-requisite Analysis for CIS Capstone Project
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When teaching the first part of the capstone project to the senior students at the College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, some problems have been reported for the past few semesters. This paper aims to identify the cause of the problem by comparing necessary skills for the capstone project to skills acquired in prior courses, tracing back through the pre-requisite dependency chain. The comparison is set between the Course Learning Outcomes identified in the capstone project and the Course Objectives of courses offered in previous years. The analysis revealed two main discrepancies, namely: several mismatches and missing links that explained the problems initially observed. It also led to identifying a weakness in one of the previous courses and triggered an adjustment in the course content.
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