Students Perception on the use of Project-Based Learning in Software Engineering Education
Resumo
Balancing theory and practice is a recurring challenge in Software Engineering (SE) education. However, the curriculum guidelines of the ACM/IEEE and Brazilian Computer Society emphasize the need of providing students with sufficient practical experiences for the development of competences expected for SE professional. Student-centered and learn-by-doing approaches, such as Project-Based Learning (PBL), have been advocated as suited for the development of competences. These approaches aim to promote higher motivation for the learner, a more active role in the learning process, and better learning in the application level. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the students' perception on the adoption of PBL in SE education. To achieve this goal, we performed a long-term study spanning for about 2 years. This study includes a survey to collect responses of 32 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory SE course that used PBL. We compare the results to the responses of 17 students who participated in a SE course with similar syllabus but with a traditional teacher-centered learning method (non-PBL). Our results show a positive reception of the PBL method, and an increased perception of the contribution of a practical software development assignment in learning specific SE topics in the context of the PBL course, in comparison to a non-PBL method.
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B. Warin and O. Talbi and C. Kolski and F. Hoogstoel. 2016. Multi-Role Project (MRP): A New Project-Based Learning Method for STEM. IEEE Transactions on Education 59, 2, 137--146.
Y. Yamada, S. Inaga, H. Washizaki, K. Kakehi, Y. Fukazawa, S. Yamato, M. Okubo, T. Kume and M. Tamaki. The impacts of personal characteristic on educational effectiveness in controlled-project based learning on software intensive systems development. IEEE 27th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T). 119--128. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2014.6816789
Tiffany Barnes, Eve Powell, Amanda Chaffin and Heather Lipford. 2008. Game2Learn: Improving the Motivation of CS1 Students. 3rd International Conf. on Game Development in Computer Science Education, 1--5. New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1145/1463673.1463674
William N. Bender. 2012. Project-Based Learning: Differentiating Instruction for the 21st Century. Corwin. ISBN: 978-1-4129-9790-4
Bruno Bessa, Mônica Cunha and Felipe Furtado. 2012. ENGSOFT: Ferramenta para Simulação de Ambientes Reais para auxiliar o Aprendizado Baseado em Problemas (PBL) no Ensino de Engenharia de Software.XX Workshop sobre Educação em Computação (WEI). Curitiba, PR.
Phyllis C. Blumenfeld, Elliot Soloway, Ronald W. Marx, Joseph S. Krajcik, Mark Guzdial and Annemarie Palincsar. 1991. Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning. Educational Psychologist 26, 3-4, 369--398. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.1991.9653139
David Delgado, Alejandro Velasco, Jairo Aponte and Andrian Marcus. 2017. Evolving a Project-Based Software Engineering Course: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 30th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T). 77--86.
Steve Easterbrook, Janice Singer, Margaret-Anne Storey and Daniela Damian. 2008. Selecting Empirical Methods for Software Engineering Research. Guide to advanced empirical Software Engineering. Springer-Verlag. 285--311.
Kevin Gary. 2015. Project-Based Learning. Computer 48, 9 (Sep. 2015), 36--44. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2015.268
IEEE & ACM JTFCC. 2015. Software Engineering 2014: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering. In IEEE & ACM; The Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula.
Mehdi Jazayeri. 2015. Combining Mastery Learning with Project-Based Learning in a First Programming Course: An Experience Report. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 315--318. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2015.163
José A. Macias. 2012. Enhancing Project-Based Learning in Software Engineering Lab Teaching Through an E-Portfolio Approach. IEEE Transactions on Education 55, 502--507. https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2012.2191787
Maíra Marques, Sergio F. Ochoa, Maria Cecilia Bastarrica and Francisco J. Gutierrez. 2018. Enhancing the Student Learning Experience in Software Engineering Project Courses. IEEE Transactions on Education 61, 1, 63--73. https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2017.2742989
Maíra R. Marques, Alcides Quispe and Sergio F. Ochoa. 2014. A systematic mapping study on practical approaches to teaching Software Engineering. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1--8. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044277
Javier Garcia Martin, Carlos López López and Jorge E. Pérez Martínez. 2014. Supporting the design and development of Project Based Learning courses. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). 1--6. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044388.
Shari Pfleeger and Barbara Kitchenham. 2001. Principles of survey research: part 1: turning lemons into lemonade. SIGSOFT Software. Engineering Notes, 26, 6 (November 2001), 16--18.
Rafael Prikladnicki, Adriano Bessa Albuquerque, Christiane. G. von Wangenheim and Reinaldo Cabral. 2009. Ensino de Engenharia de Software: Desafios, Estratégias de Ensino e Lições Aprendidas. In Proceedings of FEES09 Fórum de Educação em Engenharia de Software. Fortaleza, CE.
C. R. Rupakheti, M. Hays, S. Mohan, S. Chenoweth and A. Stouder. 2017. On a Pursuit for Perfecting an Undergraduate Requirements Engineering Course. In Proceedings of the IEEE 30th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET). 97--106. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2017.24
P. Sancho-Thomas, R. Fuentes-Fernández and B. Fernández-Manjón. 2009. Learning teamwork skills in university programming courses. Computers & Education 53, 2, 527--531. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.03.010
M. Shuto, H. Washizaki, K. Kakehi, Y. Fukazawa, S. Yamato and M. Okubo. Learning Effectiveness of Team Discussions in Various Software Engineering Education Courses. In proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 29th International Conf. on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T). 227--231.
Maurício R. de A. Souza, Kattiana F. Constantino, Lucas F. Veado, and Eduardo Figueiredo. 2017. Gamification in software engineering education: An empirical study. In 2017 IEEE 30th Conf. on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) (pp. 276--284). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2017.51
Maurício R. de A. Souza, L. Veado, R. T. Moreira, E. Figueiredo, and H. Costa. 2018. A Systematic Mapping Study on Game-related Methods for Software Engineering Education. Information and Software Technology 95, 201--218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.09.014
Mauricio Souza, Renata Moreira, and Eduardo Figueiredo. 2019. Playing the Project: Incorporating Gamification into Project-based Approaches for Software Engineering Education. In Anais do XXVII Workshop sobre Educação em Computação, (pp. 71--80). Porto Alegre: SBC.
K. J. Stol and P. Ralph and B. Fitzgerald. 2016. Grounded Theory in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 38th International Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE). 120--131.
Jeff Sutherland, and Ken Schwaber. 2013. The scrum guide. The definitive guide to scrum: The rules of the game. Scrum.org.
B. Warin and O. Talbi and C. Kolski and F. Hoogstoel. 2016. Multi-Role Project (MRP): A New Project-Based Learning Method for STEM. IEEE Transactions on Education 59, 2, 137--146.
Y. Yamada, S. Inaga, H. Washizaki, K. Kakehi, Y. Fukazawa, S. Yamato, M. Okubo, T. Kume and M. Tamaki. The impacts of personal characteristic on educational effectiveness in controlled-project based learning on software intensive systems development. IEEE 27th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T). 119--128. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2014.6816789
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21/01/2020
Como Citar
SOUZA, Maurício; MOREIRA, Renata Teles; FIGUEIREDO, Eduardo.
Students Perception on the use of Project-Based Learning in Software Engineering Education. In: EDUCATION - SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 33. , 2019, Salvador.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2020
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