Project courses at the NTH: 20 years of experience

Andersen, Rudolf; Conradi, Reidar; Krogstie, John; Sindre, Guttorm; Sølvberg, Arne

doi:10.1007/bfb0017613

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“…Our work has its roots in on a long tradition at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) of project-based SE education [1] and international sources [5,10]. Bagert et al describe a SE body of knowledge and curriculum model, and advocates for the importance of including SWA as part of SE core area [5].…”

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Educational Approach to an Experiment in a Software Architecture Course

Wang

Arisholm

Jaccheri

2007

20th Conference on Software Engineering Education &Amp; Training (CSEET'07)

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This paper reports experiences from an experiment in a software architecture course where the focus was both on giving students valuable education as well as getting important empirical results. The paper describes how the experiment was integrated in the course, and presents an evaluation of the experiment from an educational point of view. Further, the paper reflects on the costs and the benefits of carrying out an experiment in the context of a software architecture course for the involved stakeholders namely the researchers, the students, and the instructors. The main results show that we managed to integrate the experiment in the course, that the students learned several aspects of software architecture through the experiment, and that the main motivation for the students to put effort into the experiment was to prove own skills. We also describe some guidelines for planning and executing experiments as a part of a software engineering course.

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confidence: 99%

Educational Approach to an Experiment in a Software Architecture Course

Wang

Arisholm

Jaccheri

2007

20th Conference on Software Engineering Education &Amp; Training (CSEET'07)

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“…To provide students with the project-based software engineering course is accepted in software engineering education community and some good examples have been reported (Andersen, Conradi, Krogstie, Sindre, & Sølvberg, 1994). In order to meet different educational goals, instructors put forward various requirements on these educational projects.…”

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A Case to Do Empirical Study Using Educational Projects

Gu¹

2004

InSITE Conference

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Nowadays, many empirical studies are carried out based on educational projects. In these cases, instructors put forward requirements on educational projects from the perspective of education, and researchers also provide their requirements from the perspective of empirical study. How to design educational projects successfully from both educational perspective and research perspective becomes a practical challenge. In this paper, we present a successful case to resolve this problem: we designed two educational projects in a software architecture course, based on which an empirical study about creativity in software development was carried out. Our methods to design these educational projects can be reused for other software engineering courses associated with empirical study.

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“…Some of the issues discussed by this community are computing programs and curricula [4], specific courses [5], laboratories, and alternative ways of teaching. Among other proposals, the importance of practice-based software engineering education is well accepted in the community and some good examples are reported in the literature [6,7]. However, "too few academic programs offer curricula that focus on this type of education.…”

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Using Empirical Studies during Software Courses

Carver

Jaccheri

Morasca

et al. 2003

Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering

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Abstract.A number of empirical studies using students as subjects has been carried out in the last few years. These studies are usually conducted as pilot experiments that allow researchers to fine-tune an experiment before deploying it in an industrial environment. Though one of the issues usually taken into account with these experiments is their external validity, other issues need to be considered, such as the usefulness of these experiments in the context of a software engineering course. This chapter concisely reports on three empirical studies performed at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria during the ESERNET project and two other empirical studies that we carried out previously, all with students as subjects, so as to provide the context for a discussion on the research and the educational goals that should be taken into account when carrying out an experiment with students to make it successful from both an empirical and an educational viewpoint. Finally, we provide some advice on how to carry out empirical studies with students based on our experiences.

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Project courses at the NTH: 20 years of experience

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

Educational Approach to an Experiment in a Software Architecture Course

Educational Approach to an Experiment in a Software Architecture Course

A Case to Do Empirical Study Using Educational Projects

Using Empirical Studies during Software Courses

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