Team Composition in Software Engineering Education
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08431v1
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:00:05 GMT
- Title: Team Composition in Software Engineering Education
- Authors: Sajid Ibrahim Hashmi and Jouni Markkula
- Abstract summary: The study presented in this paper aims to better understand the student team composition in software engineering education.
The initial findings of the ongoing Action research study are presented.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: One of the objectives of software engineering education is to make students
to learn essential teamwork skills. This is done by having the students work in
groups for course assignments. Student team composition plays a vital role in
this, as it significantly affects learning outcomes, what is learned, and how.
The study presented in this paper aims to better understand the student team
composition in software engineering education and investigate the factors
affecting it in the international software engineering education context. Those
factors should be taken into consideration by software engineering teachers
when they design group work assignments in their courses. In this paper, the
initial findings of the ongoing Action research study are presented. The
results give some identified principles that should be considered when
designing student team composition in software engineering courses.
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