An Empirical Study on the Use of Student-Focused Approaches in the Software Engineering Teaching

Autor/inn/en	Portela, Carlos dos Santos; Vasconcelos, Alexandre Marcos Lins de; Oliveira, Sandro Ronaldo Bezerra; Souza, Mauricio Ronny de Almeida
Titel	An Empirical Study on the Use of Student-Focused Approaches in the Software Engineering Teaching
Quelle	In: Informatics in Education, 20 (2021) 2, S.277-296 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1648-5831
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Computer Science Education; Computer Software; Engineering Education; Student Attitudes; Comparative Analysis; Student Motivation; College Faculty; Undergraduate Students; Student Centered Learning; Specialists; Foreign Countries; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Ingenieurausbildung; Schülerverhalten; Schulische Motivation; Fakultät; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Ausland; Brasilien
Abstract	The software industry is not satisfied with the preparation level of newly graduated professionals in Computing undergraduate courses. There is a predominance of traditional approaches to the Software Engineering (SE) teaching which proved to be inefficient, because they focus on the content from the professor's viewpoint. This research aims to investigate if the use of student-focused approaches in the SE teaching can develop more technical competencies to apply in industry than when traditional approaches are applied. For this, an iterative model has been defined to integrate the main student-focused approaches and a controlled experiment was carried out in four undergraduate courses. The data were collected from structured interviews with students and analyzed using ANOVA. The results showed no significant statistical difference between student-focused and traditional teaching approaches in the development of SE competencies. However, these results were impacted by the motivation and commitment of the experiment students. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01