Improving student performance in software engineering practice

Dick, Martin; Postema, Margot; Miller, James

doi:10.1109/csee.2001.913835

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“…Dick, et al, [2] indicate that the application of andragogy can have a positive impact on an undergraduate sofm, are engineering practice course. Goodnight et al, [3] describe the use of andragogy to maximize adult learning at Perdue.…”

Section: Andragogy In the Web Technologies Coursementioning

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Andragogy in a web technologies course

Ellis¹

2002

Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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The face of the student body in post-secondary degree programs in the United States is changing as an increasing number of students work full-time while attaining an advanced degree [13]. As the student population includes greater numbers of working professionals, a corresponding change in the instructional approaches used to educate the maturing student population is required. Knowles' theory of andragogy [9] is a set of principles that can be used to guide adult learning. This paper describes an application of andragogy to a graduate-level Web Technologies course comprised of working professional students. In this paper, the working professional is characterized and an educational philosophy based on the theory of andragogy is presented. The application of andragogy to a Web Technologies course is described and the results are discussed.

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Section: Andragogy In the Web Technologies Coursementioning

confidence: 98%

Andragogy in a web technologies course

Ellis¹

2002

Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…It also increases their motivation, team spirit and interest in empirical software engineering (Staron, (2007)), (Maher, (2009)). Dick et al (2001) have shown improvements that can be achieved in the learning of software engineering practices when a proactive process of measurement and intervention based around adult learning principles is utilized. A study was carried out earlier to assess the pattern, which is similar to agile type methodologies in software development procedures of student groups (Bhattacherjee et al, (2007), (2009b).…”

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Modeling the Response to Questionnaire in Software Development: Multinomial or quasimultinomial

Neogi¹

2012

IJCSA

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In the present paper, an attempt is made to describe the response of questionnaire by a multinomial model. The questionnaire was designed for the undergraduate students to know whether students had agility implicitly without knowing agile software development model. In order to instill agile software development practices among students, data were collected about the effectiveness of few parameters in students group. There are 116 respondents and six questions, each with possible answers yes, neutral or no. While the individual responses can be assumed to be independent of one another, it is not clear whether the probabilities of yes, neutral, or no are fixed for every individual for a particular question. This is therefore tested, for each question separately, using Chi-Square test of goodness of fit which confirms the multinomial model. However, the probabilities of the possible responses are found to be varying from question to question.

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“…Postema, Miller, and Dick [2,3] propose to focus the projects on the four main software maintenance activities: corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventative. The students work in groups of two on each of the activities using a medium sized, opensource project.…”

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“…These projects are either small in scale and expect the student to follow predefined steps already undertaken by experienced software engineers [2,3], or use medium sized programs in laboratory sessions closely supervised by experienced programmers [4][5][6]. These courses often require a commitment of substantial resources.…”

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