Analysis of Students' Performances during Lab Sessions of Computer Networks Course

Due to changes and developments on the information and communication technologies, computer networks gained a critical role for establishing connections to share resources in a specific domain. Sharing information is very important in the digital age for giving high-quality services to all interested people enrolled in the networks. Education of computer networks is an engineering discipline to teach network topics and subjects within the university curriculum. Network courses are offered to the students of the related departments in universities and higher education organizations. In this paper, we conducted a study for analyzing the performances of the computer engineering students at Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey on the Network Course, in both theoretical and practical means. We analyzed the weekly scores collected from the lab sessions throughout the academic semesters of 2007-2008, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 by using One-way and Two-way Anova and Chi- Square tests. Additionally, students' opinions about the course and lab sessions were evaluated by questionnaires at the end of each semester during 3 years.