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Measuring and Understanding Team Development by Capturing Self-Assessed Enthusiasm and Skill Levels
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Largent, David L. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
To prepare graduates for today's work environment, they must be immersed in positive (and perhaps negative) small group experiences in their courses, which will in turn provide a basic understanding of how teams form and develop over time. In the fall of 2009, we started exploring how software development teams form and interact in a computer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Group Structure
Exploration of Participation in Student Software Engineering Teams
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Marshall, Linda; Pieterse, Vreda; Thompson, Lisa; Venter, Dina M. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Employers require software engineers to work in teams when developing software systems. It is therefore important for graduates to have experienced teamwork before they enter the job market. We describe an experiential learning exercise that we designed to teach the software engineering process in conjunction with teamwork skills. The underlying…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Teamwork, Computer Software, Programming
Team Projects in Computing Education
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Borstler, Jurgen; Hilburn, Thomas B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Team projects are a way to expose students to conflicting project objectives, and "[t]here should be a strong real-world element...to ensure that the experience is realistic" [ACM/IEEE-CS 2015b]. Team projects provide an opportunity for students to put their education into practice and prepare them for their professional careers. The aim…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Psychological Patterns
Team Projects in Computing Education
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Börstler, Jürgen; Hilburn, Thomas B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Team projects are a way to expose students to conflicting project objectives, and "[t]here should be a strong real-world element … to ensure that the experience is realistic" [ACM/IEEE-CS 2015b]. Team projects provide students an opportunity to put their education into practice and prepare them for their professional careers. The aim of…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
A Method to Analyze Computer Science Students' Teamwork in Online Collaborative Learning Environments
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Vivian, Rebecca; Falkner, Katrina; Falkner, Nickolas; Tarmazdi, Hamid – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Although teamwork has been identified as an essential skill for Computer Science (CS) graduates, these skills are identified as lacking by industry employers, which suggests a need for more proactive measures to teach and assess teamwork. In one CS course, students worked in teams to create a wiki solution to problem-based questions. Through a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Science Education
Integrating Testing into Software Engineering Courses Supported by a Collaborative Learning Environment
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Clarke, Peter J.; Davis, Debra; King, Tariq M.; Pava, Jairo; Jones, Edward L. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
As software becomes more ubiquitous and complex, the cost of software bugs continues to grow at a staggering rate. To remedy this situation, there needs to be major improvement in the knowledge and application of software validation techniques. Although there are several software validation techniques, software testing continues to be one of the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Professional Personnel, Engineering, Testing