Change in Students' Peer Evaluations of Requirements Elicitation Interviews across the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic-Affected Semesters

Autor/inn/en	Babik, Dmytro; Babik, Iryna
Titel	Change in Students' Peer Evaluations of Requirements Elicitation Interviews across the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic-Affected Semesters
Quelle	In: Journal of Information Systems Education, 33 (2022) 3, S.283-299 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1055-3096
Schlagwörter	Peer Evaluation; COVID-19; Pandemics; Information Systems; Computer Science Education; College Students; Trend Analysis; Interviews; Soft Skills; Gender Differences; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Collegestudent; Trendanalyse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Successful development of an information system to solve a business problem depends on the analyst's ability to elicit system requirements from a user. This complex competency could be trained via critical peer evaluation of the requirements elicitation (RE) interviews. In this study, 294 students across four pre-pandemic and two COVID-19 pandemic-affected semesters evaluated recorded sample RE interviews of low and high quality. A piecewise regression modeling was used to examine the change in students' evaluations separately for the pre-pandemic and pandemic-affected semesters. Current results showed that students exhibited inflated evaluation scores (relative to instructors' scores) for the high-quality, but not for the low-quality interview. While students' evaluations for the low-quality interview remained stable across the pre-pandemic semesters, a significant decrease in evaluation scores for the high-quality interview reduced the gap between the students' and instructors' evaluations. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought a significant increase in students' evaluation scores, which decreased during the second pandemic-affected semester. Moreover, females inflated their evaluations compared to males, specifically for technical, rather than soft skills. Current findings shed light on several important trends in students' peer evaluations in the context of RE training and possible effects of massive learning disruptions, such as the pandemic. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Information Systems Education. e-mail: editor@jise.org; Web site: http://www.jise.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01