Paper Info
Title
Fair assessment in software engineering capstone projects
Abstract
Providing undergraduate and postgraduate Computer Science students with valuable practical, real-life experiences during Software Engineering courses is considered a necessity. These experiences should integrate theoretical knowledge with practical skills in order to enhance employability skills and prepare students for the industry. A common practice in order to achieve this goal is having students work in groups in Software Engineering Capstone projects. Despite the numerous benefits, however, capstone projects impose a number of challenges for educators. One of them is the fair assessment of students within a group. This paper presents an assessment scheme that takes into consideration both the individual effort that a student places in a groupwork capstone project, as well as, the value of the effort as perceived by teammates via peer assessment. The assessment scheme and the utilized peer assessment form are validated through questionnaires. Students' perceptions concerning their experiences in past projects as well as their opinions about the specific assessment scheme are gathered and analyzed. The results are encouraging and provide an indication that the proposed assessment method which integrates peer assessment promotes a more fair assessment for Software Engineering Capstone projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2490257.2490268
BCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
software engineering capstone project,proposed assessment method,assessment scheme,software engineering course,individual effort,assessment form,specific assessment scheme,groupwork capstone project,fair assessment,capstone project,peer assessment
Employability,Peer assessment,Software engineering,Computer science,Capstone,Knowledge management,Capstone project
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adelina Basholli120.42
Fesal Baxhaku220.42
Dimitris Dranidis38010.44
Thanos Hatziapostolou4123.93