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Nowadays, many universities include Personal Software Process (PSP) into their software engineering curriculum. However, delivering PSP course in tertiary education environment always faces at least two challenges. Firstly, in a typical PSP course in education environment, one teacher may teach much more students than a typical PSP class in industry, hence it is extremely difficult to provide evaluation of students' assignments in time. Secondly, participation of students in university often has significantly different characteristics compared to those trainees who had industry experiences. Based on education practice in Software Institute of Nanjing University, this paper proposed an approach to teaching PSP in tertiary education environment with higher efficiency and effectiveness. In this approach, a complete PSP course is delivered and cooperative learning (in pair) is encouraged. Besides, an evaluation team is established to provide timely evaluation on students' submissions and to help students correct their development behaviors. To validate this teaching approach, we conducted an experiment which involved all the freshman students enrolled in software engineering. We compared some process data collected from the submissions of both groups (individual and pair) of students. The results of the experiment show that the load of students' submissions reduced by half while students' interest of learning increased. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/CSEET.2011.5876098 | CSEE&T |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
complete psp course,psp course,evaluation team,teaching approach,software engineering curriculum,cooperative learning,typical psp class,educational courses,typical psp course,tertiary education environment,delivering psp course,timely evaluation,education practice,computer science education,education environment,software institute of nanjing university,personal software process,software engineering,tertiary education,programming,computer languages,data collection | Personal software process,Software engineering,Computer science,Engineering management,Software,Software engineering curriculum,Cooperative learning,Higher education | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1093-0175 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-0347-8 | 978-1-4577-0347-8 | 5 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.50 | 14 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guoping Rong | 1 | 35 | 12.92 |
| He Zhang | 2 | 817 | 65.63 |
| Zhenyu Chen | 3 | 634 | 57.65 |
| Dong Shao | 4 | 38 | 10.52 |