Evaluating the Teaching Effectiveness of Various Data Modeling Notations

The technique known as Entity-Relationship modeling utilizes a plethora of notational forms present in many academic texts, journals, and CASE tools. These notations contain an underlying commonality, but differ in their salient features, distinguishing their representation of many cross-sectional equivalent markings. In this paper, we evaluated non-database students on their semantic assimilation of the most common notational models (Chen,...