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Georgia M. Kapitsaki – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: Reporting of students' view on the use of preparatory sprint and virtual meetings, as well as on the workload effort in combination with coding artifacts in a Scrum-variant project-based course. Background: Scrum has been adopted to a large extent in Software Engineering (SE) courses. Relevant aspects have been examined in the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Computer Software, Programming
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Daleiden, Patrick; Stefik, Andreas M.; Uesbeck, Phillip Merlin – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
Coprocessor architectures in High Performance Computing are prevalent in today's scientific computing clusters and require specialized knowledge for proper utilization. Various alternative paradigms for parallel and offload computation exist, but little is known about the human factors impacts of using the different paradigms. With computer…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Computation
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Hulshult, Andrea R. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2021
This study aims to examine the effectiveness and value of using Agile work practices to enhance group satisfaction in project-based courses. This study explores student perceptions of using Agile in a group, project-based course to support how Agile can be utilized in higher education to positively enhance group collaboration and teamwork. Surveys…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Cooperative Learning
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Fernández-Alemán, José Luis; Carrillo-de-Gea, Juan Manuel; Meca, Joaquín Vidal; Ros, Joaquín Nicolás; Toval, Ambrosio; Idri, Ali – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
This paper presents the results of two educational experiments carried out to determine whether the process of specifying requirements (catalog-based reuse as opposed to conventional specification) has an impact on effectiveness and productivity in co-located and distributed software development environments. The participants in the experiments…
Descriptors: Productivity, Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Course Descriptions
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Korzaan, Melinda; Lawrence, Cameron – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
This lab exercise exposes students to Evernote, which is a powerful productivity application that has gained significant purchase in professional work environments. In many academic settings the introductory computer applications course has a specific focus on standard productivity applications such as MS Word and MS Excel. While ensuring fluency…
Descriptors: Productivity, Computer Oriented Programs, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education
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Zhao, Jensen J.; Zhao, Sherry Y. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
As the entry-level information technology jobs could be easily outsourced offshore, the demand for U.S. employees who are innovative and productive in information technology (IT) project design, development, and management is growing among U.S. companies. This controlled experiment presents how a model of integrating students' intelligence…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intelligence Quotient, Gender Differences, Creativity