Databases, non-majors and collaborative learning

Abstract

In data modeling, a ternary relationship is sometimes necessary to express semantics richer than the union of the pairwise binary ones. So too, this paper describes a ternary relationship among three "entity types" in computer science education: databases as the subject, non-computer science majors as the target population, and collaborative learning as the pedagogical approach. While there is extensive research and experience in each binary link, the three-way investigation is new.