The Comparison of the Perceptions of Business Leaders and Higher Education Institutes Administrators in Terms of the Important Computer Knowledge for the Computer Science Graduates
Abstract:
This research was aimed to study comparatively in the perception of the business leaders and higher education institute administrators. In case of, what is the important computer knowledge that the graduated computer science students should be known. The samples are divided to two groups, the former are 191 heads of the computer divisions of the companies which have been registered in the stock exchange of Thailand. The later are 62 head and vice head of the computer science department of the universities which this cuniculum have been used. These samples were selected by the purposive sampling. The two-set questionnaires were used for two-group samples as a research tool. The analysis by means of statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Spearman rank order correlation coefficient and Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The research findings revealed that, from nine important subject areas for the computer science student curriculum, computer architecture, numerical and symbolic computation and artificial intelligence and robotics are the obvious different perceptions by the level of significance of 0.05. Furthermore, the study findings were as follow: (1) In the computer programming language subject area, Visual Basic is the important knowledge for works and used in the most of companies but C is the important knowledge for works and used in the most of institutes. (2) In the operating system subject area, Windows is the important knowledge for works and used in both of companies and institutes. And (3) in the database and information retrieval subject area, Access is used in both of companies and institutes but they perceived thatOracle is the important knowledge for works.