Improving students' learning in software engineering education through multi-level assignments

Christian Köppe; Leo Pruijt

doi:10.1145/2691352.2691357

Improving students' learning in software engineering education through multi-level assignments

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Abstract

Assignments and exercises are an essential part of software engineering education. It usually requires a variety of these assignments to cover a desired wide range of educational objectives as defined in the revised Bloom's taxonomy. But such a variety has inherent problems, e.g. that students might not see the connections between the assignments and find it hard to generalize the covered concepts. In this paper we present the educational design pattern MULTI-LEVEL ASSIGNMENT which addresses these problems. It enables the assignment designer to incorporate a variety of educational objectives into a single assignment by including the concepts on multiple knowledge and process levels. The description as educational design pattern and the provided three implementation examples make this approach directly applicable for other software engineering educators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - CSERC 2014
Subtitle of host publication	Computer Science Education Research Conference
Editors	Erik Barendsen, Erik Barendsen, Valentina Dagiene
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	57-62
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450333474
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2691352.2691357
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC 2014 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 5 Nov 2014 → 6 Nov 2014

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Conference	4th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC 2014
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	5/11/14 → 6/11/14

Keywords

Design principles
Educational patterns
Revised Bloom's taxonomy

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Köppe, C & Pruijt, L 2014, Improving students' learning in software engineering education through multi-level assignments. in E Barendsen, E Barendsen & V Dagiene (eds), Proceedings - CSERC 2014: Computer Science Education Research Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 57-62, 4th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC 2014, Berlin, Germany, 5/11/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2691352.2691357

Improving students' learning in software engineering education through multi-level assignments. / Köppe, Christian; Pruijt, Leo.
Proceedings - CSERC 2014: Computer Science Education Research Conference. ed. / Erik Barendsen; Erik Barendsen; Valentina Dagiene. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 57-62.

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