Generic Skills in Software Engineering Master Thesis Projects: Towards Rubric-Based Evaluation
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Robert Feldt, Martin Höst, Frank Lüders |
| Title: | Generic Skills in Software Engineering Master Thesis Projects: Towards Rubric-Based Evaluation |
| Conference name: | 22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T'09) |
| Year: | 2009 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-642-02151-0 |
| Publisher: | IEEE CS |
| City: | Hyderabad |
| ISI number: | 000268050000002 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Computing (Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation) School of Computing S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/com |
| Authors e-mail: | robert.feldt@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | There has been much recent interest in how to help students in higher education develop their generic skills, especially since this is a focus of the Bologna process that aims to standardize European higher education. However, even though the Master thesis is the final and often crucial part of a graduate degree and requires many generic skills very little research has directly focused on them. In particular, there is a lack of such knowledge for engineering education programs. In this paper we present results from a survey where we asked 23 students from three different Swedish universities about which generic skills are needed and developed in a Master thesis project in Software Engineering. One outcome of our analysis is that there is a lack of understanding on how to define, and thus examine, generic skills in software engineering thesis projects. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | Teaching, Software Engineering, Master Thesis, Generic Skills |
