Using TSPi and PBL to support software engineering education in an upper‐level undergraduate course. Issue 4 (8th May 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Garcia, I. A.; Pacheco, C. L.
• Is Part Of: Computer applications in engineering education. Volume 22:Issue 4(2014:Dec.)
• Page Start: 736
• Page End: 749
• Publication Date: 2012-05-08
• Subjects: Engineering -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; Engineering -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Periodicals; 620
• DOI: 10.1002/cae.21566
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1061-3773

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>ABSTRACT</title> <sec id="cae21566-sec-0001" sec-type="section"> <p>In recent years, software engineering education has rapidly changed to incorporate more realistic ways of learning. More frequently the software industry requires more skilled and qualified staff; however at the university level students are young, inexperienced, and relatively homogeneous in background and abilities. This article describes an approach that integrates a student teamwork methodology (TSPi) and project‐based learning (PBL) to improve software project managerial skills in undergraduate students. As complementary support, a computational tool, the <italic>Teamwork Platform for Software Engineering Education</italic>, has been developed to establish an interactive software engineering course with local software industry collaboration. Experimental results show that a set of software metrics was defined to demonstrate performance improvement of 45 students following our approach.© 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 22:736–749, 2014; View this article online at <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae" xlink:type="simple" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae</ext-link>; DOI <ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:type="simple" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">10.1002/cae.21566</ext-link></p> </sec> </abstract>