Effectiveness of SCRUM in Project Based Learning: Students View

Dinis‐Carvalho, José; Ferreira, Ana; Barbosa, Catarina; Lopes, C.; Macedo, Helena; Tereso, Paulo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91334-6_154

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“…The selected teams were briefly trained on the main features of Scrum and a teacher was assigned to both groups to play the Scrum Master role. A teacher playing the traditional tutor role is always assigned to each PBL team [40,41], but in this case, a teacher with motivation and some degree of Scrum experience was assigned to play the Scrum Master role [23].…”

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“…A published paper already reported the study conducted in a PBL project [23] where two teams of students applied Scrum as a tool to help them manage the project and the team. That was the first time teams of students used Scrum in the PBL program in the Integrated Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Minho.…”

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“…The burndown charts were created in every Sprint Planning meeting according to the man-hours available and the amount of hours required for the planned tasks to the next Sprint, and then updated as tasks are completed. The Sprint Planning became such an important tool for groups that some students admitted that they could not manage their project without it [23].…”

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Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

2021

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of Scrum for project and team management in PBL teams in higher education. To attain this goal, a study was carried out to analyze students’ perceptions about Scrum as an effective method for PBL teams. Based on two different editions of PBL that used the Scrum method with different characteristics in each approach, this paper aims to identify the best practices for effective team and project management and draw recommendations for successful use of scrum in PBL approaches. The authors used an exploratory case study carried out within an engineering program at the University of Minho, Portugal. The research design was based on an explorative quantitative and qualitative approach. Implementing Scrum in PBL teams helps students to keep the project running smoothly and draws greater awareness on how to manage the project and teams in a more effective way. Findings show that task assignment, performance monitoring, visual management and regular feedback were considered the main advantages of using Scrum in PBL teams, which had a positive impact on student performance. However, for the success of Scrum, students recognize the role of the Scrum Master and Project Owner as vital to guide the teams in a sustainable way. Research on the application of Scrum in Education is scarce and mostly exploratory. This paper is among the very few empirical studies consolidating knowledge on the implementation of Scrum approaches to improve learning in higher education. More specifically, it brings a valuable contribution on how to improve specifically team performance in PBL teams with the use of agile approaches such as Scrum.

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“…Based on the above research, it can be understood that TL-Scrum is a new teaching in which students work together to complete tasks, stimulate students' interest in learning, promote the development of students' overall ability, and it is a kind of active collaborative learning (Delhij et al, 2015). The purpose of this study was to try to integrate TL-Scrum into the lower-secondary school physics class by selecting "Physics in Bicycles" as the teaching material, implementing and designing the teaching.…”

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Effect of Teaching and Learning-Scrum on Improvement Physics Achievement and Team Collaboration Ability of Lower-Secondary School Student

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2021

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Employers believe that people with the ability to work in teams can bring success to their business. Therefore, it is very essential to start cultivating students' teamwork skills in lower-secondary school to prepare students for the future. This study took "Physics in Bicycles" as an example to explore the effect of Teaching and Learning-Scrum (TL-Scrum) on students' physics achievement and team collaboration ability. It was conducted at a lower-secondary school in Changsha, China. "Physical Knowledge of Bicycles" Test and "Team Collaboration Ability" Measurement were applied to the two groups prior to and following the experiment. The experimental group (N=61) participated in TL-Scrum teaching, whereas the control group (N=58) participated without TL-Scrum teaching. The results revealed a significant difference between the two groups, with the experimental group learners performing better than the control group in the academic achievement. In addition, the results showed better positive effects of TL-Scrum on experimental group learners in team collaboration ability. Results suggested that learners achieved better academic achievements and team collaboration with the approach of TL-Scrum, which pointed to certain implications for physics teaching research, as well as in education of future physics teachers. Keywords: lower-secondary school students, physics education, team collaboration, TL-Scrum

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“…We think that Scrum may be used by students as an engaging and self-organizing way to work collaboratively and dynamically, and this may improve mutual collaboration and reflection among students and teacher. Experiences of students during project-based learning are described by Dinis-Carvalho et al (2018) which showed that students recognized the advantages of the Scrum methodology and scored above average compared to students using regular teaching approaches.…”

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Supervision of master theses based on Scrum: A case study

2021

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The success rate of a master program on Information Systems and Computer Engineering (MEIC) in a Portuguese university is very unsatisfactory, showing that less than half of the students complete the assigned work in their first term. However, the success rate of a group of students that were supervised based on the Scrum framework was much higher. So, in this study we assess the current situation and identify the benefits of using Scrum to manage master's theses. Evidence suggests that this approach increases the number of students successfully completing their projects. So, this paper discusses the issues at stake and reports on a qualitative study with focus on the actual practices and benefits reported by students in the master program. We found that some methods in the Scrum framework can address existing problems in the development of theses with very positive results.

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Effectiveness of SCRUM in Project Based Learning: Students View

Cited by 7 publications

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Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

Effect of Teaching and Learning-Scrum on Improvement Physics Achievement and Team Collaboration Ability of Lower-Secondary School Student

Supervision of master theses based on Scrum: A case study

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