The Journal of
Issues in Informing Science
and Information Technology
2005 Volume 2


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Table of Contents
 

Assessment/Evaluation

Degrading Grades - Do Graduate Grades Provide a Useful Guide to Potential ICT Employers?

Tony Richardson ..........................................................................................................................................  1

A Beginning Specification of a Model for Evaluating Learning Outcomes Grounded in Java Programming Courses

Robert Joseph Skovira ..................................................................................................................................  9

Formative Assessment Visual Feedback in Computer Graded Essays

Robert Williams and Heinz Dreher ...............................................................................................................  23

Collaborative Work/Interaction/Working Together/Teams

CAB - Collaboration across Borders: Peer Evaluation for Collaborative Learning

Janice Whatley, Frances Bell, Jan Shaylor, Elena Zaitseva, and Danuta Zakrzewska .......................................  33

Modeling Human Activity Systems for Collaborative Project Development: An IS Development Perspective

Kam VAT ..................................................................................................................................................  49

Using Technology-Mediated Learning Environment to Overcome Social and Cultural Limitations in Higher Education

Arif Bhatti, Abdallah Tubaishat, and Eyas El-Qawasmeh ...............................................................................  67

"We Work as a Team Really": Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms

Dale Mackrell .............................................................................................................................................  77

Talking Past Each Other - Staff and Student Reflection in Undergraduate Software Projects

Stewart Fleming ..........................................................................................................................................  93

New Pathways to Learning: The Team Teaching Approach. A Library and Information Science Case Study

Helen Partridge and Gillian Hallam .............................................................................................................  103

Commerce and eCommerce

Online Securities Trading in China

Michelle W. L. Fong .................................................................................................................................  119

Common Approaches to Patenting New E-commerce Business Models (a Case Study)

Max Gottlieb and Boris Stavrovski ..............................................................................................................  129

Control, Audit, and Security

Teaching System Access Control

John Bauer Mengelberg .............................................................................................................................  139

Computer Network Simulation and Network Security Auditing in a Spatial Context of an Organization

Andrzej Zaliwski .......................................................................................................................................  159

A Perspective on Achieving Information Security Awareness

Mariana Hentea ........................................................................................................................................  169

Curriculum Issues

A Doctorate Degree Program in Information Systems of a Kind

Frederick Kohun and Azad Ali ...................................................................................................................  179

Prior Experience and New IT Students

Edward Holden and Elissa Weeden............................................................................................................. 189

The Peer Reviews and the Programming Course

Grandon Gill ..............................................................................................................................................  205

Understanding Information Technology:   What do Graduates from Business-oriented
IS Curricula Need to Know?

John Beachboard and Kevin Parker............................................................................................................ 219

Suggested Topics for an IS Introductory Course in Java

Azad Ali and Frederick Kohun ...................................................................................................................  237

Integrating Sun Certification Objectives into an IS Programming

Akram Al-Rawi, Azzedine Lansari, and Faouzi Bouslama ............................................................................  247

Defining the IT Curriculum: The Results of the Past 3 Years

Barry Lunt, Joseph Ekstrom, Edith Lawson, Reza Kamali, Jacob Miller, Sandra Gorka, and
Han Reichgelt............................................................................................................................................ 259

Analysis of Information Systems Management (post)Graduate Program: Case Study
of Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Peter Baloh ..............................................................................................................................................  271

Distance Education & e-Learning

Understanding Intention to Use Multimedia Information Systems for Learning

Raafat Saade and Ian Galloway .................................................................................................................  287

Establishing the IT Student’s Perspective to e-Learning: Preliminary Findings from a Queensland University of Technology Case Study

Helen Partridge and Sylvia Edwards............................................................................................................ 297

Web Triad: the Impact of Web Portals on Quality of Institutions of Higher Education - Case Study of Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ales Popovic, Jaka Lindic, Mojca Indihar Stemberger, and Jurij Jaklic ..........................................................  313

Customizing Instruction

Frank Kurzel .............................................................................................................................................  325

Time and the Design of Web-Based Learning Environments

Ari Wahlstedt ...........................................................................................................................................  335

Education/Training

What Can You Do To Virtually Teach Hands-on Skills?

Peter Fenrich ............................................................................................................................................  347

A Profile of Digital Information Literacy Competencies of High School Students

Sunita Shankar, Muthu Kumar, Uma Natarajan, and John G. Hedberg ..........................................................  355

Towards an Information System Making Transparent Teaching Processes and Applying Informing Science to Education

Antonio Cartelli .........................................................................................................................................  369

Ethical & Philosophical Issues

Ethical IT Behaviour as a Function of Environment

Tony Jewels and Nina Evans .....................................................................................................................  383

Exploring the Key Informational, Ethical and Legal Concerns to the Development of Population Genomic Databases for Pharmacogenomic Research

Julia Gladstone ..........................................................................................................................................  395

How to Teach/ New Ways of Teaching

The Effects of Reading Goals on Learning in a Computer Mediated Environment

Betsy Schoeller .........................................................................................................................................  405

An Overview: Approaches for the Development of Basic IT Skills

Syed Jafar Naqvi ......................................................................................................................................  423

System Analysis Education Using Simulated Case Studies

Bill Davey and David Kelly ........................................................................................................................  431

ISExpertNet: Facilitating Knowledge Sharing in the Information Systems Academic Community

Dennis Viehland ........................................................................................................................................  441

Progressive Programming Assignments

Keith Whittington ......................................................................................................................................  451

Evaluating Critical Reflection for Postgraduate Students in Computing

Kay Fielden ..............................................................................................................................................  461

Automatically Generating Questions in Multiple Variables for Intelligent Tutoring

Tao Li and Samuel Sambasivam .................................................................................................................  471

Use of a Class Exercise to Maximize Student Interest in an Introductory MIS Course

Arup Mukherjee ........................................................................................................................................  481

Human-Computer Interaction & Interface Design

Resistance to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs): A Barrier to Improved Quality of Care

David Meinert ...........................................................................................................................................  493

Information Harvesting, Archiving Technologies/Methods

Concept Mapping as a Tool for Curriculum Quality

Elizabeth McDaniel, Brenda Roth, and Michael Miller .................................................................................  505

And What of Intellectual Landscapes in the Future?

James P. (Max) McCarthy ........................................................................................................................  515

Information Management

Design, Development and Deployment Considerations when Applying Native XML Database Technology to the Programme Management Function of an SME

Samuel Sambasivam and Paul Storey .........................................................................................................  523

Discipline Formation in Information Management: Case Study of Scientific and Technological Information Services

Michael Middleton .....................................................................................................................................  543

Information Transfer in Supply Chain Management

Peter Trkman, Mojca Indihar Stemberger, and Jurij Jaklic............................................................................. 559

Misinformation/Bias in Systems

Matching:  Discrimination, Misinformation, and Sudden Death

Gail Thornburg ..........................................................................................................................................  575

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT Education

Craig VanLengen ......................................................................................................................................  591

Networks and Telecommunication

Creating a Networking Lab for Business Students

Michael Chilton .........................................................................................................................................  599

Performance Analysis of Double Buffer Technique (DBT) Model for Mobility Support
in Wireless IP Networks

Adeniyi Akintola, Adesola Aderounmu, and Michael Adigun ........................................................................  609

Modeling and Performance Analysis of Dynamic Random Early Detection (DRED) Gateway for Congestion Avoidance

Adeniyi Akintola, Adesola Aderounmu, Lukman Akanbi, and Michael Adigun................................................ 623

Measurement Data Logging via Bluetooth

Kaj J. Grahn, Christian Dieckert, Frank Schneider, and Göran Pulkkis ..........................................................  637

Project Management/Practice

Software Quality Management supported by Software Agent

Rita Nienaber and Andries Barnard ............................................................................................................  659

An Assessment of Software Project Management Maturity in Mauritius

Aneerav Sukhoo, Andries Barnard, Mariki Eloff, and John Andre Van der Poll.............................................. 671

Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management

Aneerav Sukhoo, Andries Barnard, Mariki Eloff, John Andre Van der Poll, and
Mahendrenath Motah ................................................................................................................................  691

Social & Cultural Issues

The Digital Divide and K-12 Student Computer Use

James Morgan and Craig VanLengen .........................................................................................................  705

Systems Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation

Redesign of Stand-Alone Applications into Thin-Client/Server

Michel van der Vlugt and Samuel Sambasivam ...........................................................................................  723

Using a Blackboard Architecture in a Web Application

Christiane Metzner, Leonardo Cortez, and Doritza Chacín ...........................................................................  743

Web/XML/Internet

The Performance of Web-based 2-tier Middleware Systems

Johnson Dehinbo .......................................................................................................................................  757

An Actor Network Approach to Informing Clients through Portals

Arthur Tatnall and Bill Davey ....................................................................................................................  771

IISIT Reviewers

.................................................................................................................................................................  780

Addendum

Online Handwritten Character Recognition Using an Optical
Backpropagation Neural Network

Walid A. Salameh and Mohammed A. Otair  ............................................................................................ 787