Over 200 students took buses from 9.00am to 5.00pm
from the conference site at Cumberland Place in West Lafayette,
Indiana over to Purdue University (Knoy Hall) where Jeffrey
Brewer, Mark Broda, Keith Tennant, John Reynolds, Lynn Mckell
and Ken Bainey helped us in 6 computer labs deal with the huge
demand for ICCP examinations.
A new examination in Informations Systems Core
(IS-CORE) subjects created as an outcome assessment examination
for graduating seniors was being beta tested. Some twenty universities
had got together at the School of Computing, University of Southern
Alabama (Dr. David Feinstein, Dr. Bart Longnecker Jr., Dr. Jeffrey
P. Landry) in January 2003 to build the examination questions
which are directly linked to learning units under the IS2002
model curriculum and analysis of job skills as advertised by
recruiting companies.
The ICCP is one of the sponsoring agencies along
with AITP's Education Special Interest Group, of this research
effort soon to be funded by the NSF.
Another examination being beta tested was the
Web Developer (WDV) examination. Web Developer preparation has
been led by Dr. Brian Reithel, CDP of the University of Mississippi
(OleMiss) and AITP Education Foundation member (former chair)
as part of Dr. Lynn McKell (Brigham Young University) and his
new examinations committee of the ICCP's Education Foundation.
Many professors, students and professionals from
industry took part in these examinations. Also many freshmen
and sophmores decided to challenge the examinations to figure
out how much more they had to learn. It was an outstanding test
for many of those students.
Even those students who didn't do well, stated
on exit surveys, that they respected the soundness of the examinations
and hadn't expected to do well, especially since there was no
review or preparation for these tests. The data below reflects
that variability in performance.
To achieve Associate Computing Professional (ACP)
status an examinee has to achieve a score higher than 50% on
at least two examinations, including the IS-CORE.
The students listed below achieved expert status
(70% or more) on at least one examination.
Overall top student performer on ICCP tests (Combined
score IS-CORE and WEB DEVELOPER) was:
It is obvious that these are hard examinations.
In order to achieve expert level you need to achieve 70% or
more and it is a credit to both the students and the faculty
at their college/university that these students know their materials
so well.
Academics: Want to test how well your class
of students compares to the national average?
Contact us at the ICCP
office so that we can assist you in measuring your class/college
against the best students in North America.
Kewal Dhariwal, CCP Executive Director,
ICCP and Manager Supply Chain Collaboration Online Research
Institute, Athabasca University (www.mba.athabascau.ca)
March 30, 2003.
