Abstract
This study is carried out in Management Information System (MIS) department which accepts students from general and vocational high schools with widely varying range of educational backgrounds. As an emerging interdisciplinary field, MIS education demands both technical and managerial skills from its students. However, students with different backgrounds have to pursue the same diversified set of courses. The aim of this study is to investigate students’ segments and profiles based on the various dimensions of academic abilities they possess, by performing cluster analysis. The data set consists of the student official grade for the required courses. First, dimensionality of the course grades is reduced to a few independent abilities by performing factor analysis. The summed scales representing the independent factors are then used in the cluster analysis to obtain student segments. Finally, variation of the student background measured by high school type is profiled for each segment. The students from general high schools have been more successful in MIS education compared to students from vocational schools where only the basic knowledge on management or computer skills is offered. The results of this analysis are also utilized in shaping various macro and micro level strategies in our MIS department.
Highlights
Management Information Systems (MIS) combines the disciplines of management and computer science to manage information (Laudon and Laudon, 2009)
The aim of this study is to investigate the profiles of students in MIS department by performing cluster analysis on various dimensions of academic abilities based on their official grade data for the required courses
This study aims at clustering undergraduate students in the MIS department of Boğaziçi University based on course grades data
Summary
Management Information Systems (MIS) combines the disciplines of management and computer science to manage information (Laudon and Laudon, 2009). As an emerging interdisciplinary field, MIS demands both technical and managerial skills from its graduates. The curriculum of MIS department in Boğaziçi University is designed to deliver a balanced set of management and computer courses in order to prepare students for developing and maintaining business information systems. Courses offered in the MIS curriculum cover a wide range of topics that include management and organization, economics, marketing, accounting and finance, computer programming, system design concepts, database management, data communication and operations research. In the first two years, students take basic management and computing courses. Specialized courses are offered in the last two years to provide the student with a strong foundation in information management
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