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A College Course: Data Quality in Information Systems

Information Systems (IS) college students are not prepared for the demands of improving information quality in our databases and data warehouses. Information Quality (IQ)/Data Quality (DQ) in IS curricula tends to be subject to individual faculty preferences. Given the significance and pervasiveness of DQ and the lack of focused attention to DQ/IQ in college curricula, I created a Data Quality in Information Systems course. The purpose of the course is to alert our would-be-IS-professionals to the pervasiveness and criticality of data quality problems. The secondary agenda is to begin to arm the students with approaches and the commitment to overcome these problems. Four major exercises were quite powerful in helping the students understand and assimilate concepts of Data and Information Quality. The cases included Total Quality Management analysis, Data Warehouse Cleansing, Data Quality Information (data tags), exercise and an Information Quality Assessment project. The purpose of this paper is to share the essence of the new course.