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Making Lab Sessions Mandatory-On Student Work Distribution in a Gamified Project Course on Market-Driven Software Engineering

Borg, Markus LU (2020) 32nd IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020 In 2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020 p.16-25
Abstract

Unfair work distribution in student teams is a common issue in project-based learning. One contributing factor is that students are differently skilled developers. In a course with group work intertwining engineering and business aspects, we designed an intervention to help novice programmers, i.e., we introduced mandatory programming lab sessions. However, the intervention did not affect the work distribution, showing that more is needed to balance the workload. Contrary to our goal, the intervention was very well received among experienced students, but unpopular with students weak at programming.

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group work, intervention, project-based learning
host publication
2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020
series title
2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020
editor
Daun, Marian ; Hochmuller, Elke ; Krusche, Stephan ; Brugge, Bernd and Tenbergen, Bastian
article number
9206218
pages
10 pages
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
32nd IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020
conference location
Munich, Germany
conference dates
2020-11-09 - 2020-11-12
external identifiers
  • scopus:85097649449
ISBN
9781728168074
DOI
10.1109/CSEET49119.2020.9206218
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English
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yes
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178d5f19-356c-4661-8cec-fb32baa863de
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2021-01-08 09:24:44
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2022-04-19 03:22:35
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  abstract     = {{<p>Unfair work distribution in student teams is a common issue in project-based learning. One contributing factor is that students are differently skilled developers. In a course with group work intertwining engineering and business aspects, we designed an intervention to help novice programmers, i.e., we introduced mandatory programming lab sessions. However, the intervention did not affect the work distribution, showing that more is needed to balance the workload. Contrary to our goal, the intervention was very well received among experienced students, but unpopular with students weak at programming. </p>}},
  author       = {{Borg, Markus}},
  booktitle    = {{2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020}},
  editor       = {{Daun, Marian and Hochmuller, Elke and Krusche, Stephan and Brugge, Bernd and Tenbergen, Bastian}},
  isbn         = {{9781728168074}},
  keywords     = {{group work; intervention; project-based learning}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{16--25}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2020}},
  title        = {{Making Lab Sessions Mandatory-On Student Work Distribution in a Gamified Project Course on Market-Driven Software Engineering}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEET49119.2020.9206218}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/CSEET49119.2020.9206218}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}