A Team Building Model for Software Engineering Courses Term Projects

Autor/in	Sahin, Yasar Guneri
Titel	A Team Building Model for Software Engineering Courses Term Projects
Quelle	In: Computers & Education, 56 (2011) 3, S.916-922 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1315
DOI	10.1016/j.compedu.2010.11.006
Schlagwörter	Teamwork; Team Training; Computer Software; Program Effectiveness; Engineering; Gender Differences; Models; Engineering Education; Student Projects; Experiments; College Students; Females; Statistical Analysis; Grading; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teamcoaching; Maschinenbau; Geschlechterkonflikt; Analogiemodell; Ingenieurausbildung; Schulprojekt; Erprobung; Collegestudent; Weibliches Geschlecht; Statistische Analyse; Notengebung; Schulnote; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	This paper proposes a new model for team building, which enables teachers to build coherent teams rapidly and fairly for the term projects of software engineering courses. Moreover, the model can also be used to build teams for any type of project, if the team member candidates are students, or if they are inexperienced on a certain subject. The proposed model takes students' preferences and the teacher's considerations into account when a team building process is required for any type of course. In addition, this paper investigates how team building models (RandomM: teams are built with randomly selected students; TeacherM: teacher selects the members for each team; StudentsM: students build their own teams and the proposed model) affect team performance and how gender differences affect project activities and team performance. A three-year (five semesters) teaching experiment was performed with the participation of 248 male and 79 female university students and a total of 67 software project teams. Two different One-way ANOVA tests were applied on the experimental data, and the results indicated that the proposed model was better than RandomM, TeacherM and StudentsM models in terms of project grades, and the effect of gender differences on the teams' performance and project activities was negligible. (Contains 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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