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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Fri 19 May 2023 13:45 - 14:00 at Meeting Room 109 - SE education Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik

Students enrolled in software engineering degrees are generally required to undertake a research project in their final year through which they demonstrate the ability to conduct research, communicate outcomes, and build in-depth expertise in an area. Assessment in these projects typically involves evaluating the product of their research via a thesis or a similar artifact. However, this misses a range of other factors that go into producing successful software engineers and researchers. Incorporating aspects such as process, attitudes, project complexity, and supervision support into the assessment can provide a more holistic evaluation of the performance likely to better align with the intended learning outcomes. In this paper, we present on our experience of adopting an innovative assessment approach to enhance learning outcomes and research performance in our software engineering research projects. Our approach adopted a task-oriented approach to portfolio assessment that incorporates student personas, frequent formative feedback, delayed summative grading, and standards-aligned outcomes-based assessment. We report upon our continuous improvement journey in adapting tasks and criteria to address the challenges of assessing student research projects. Our lessons learnt demonstrate the value of personas to guide the development of holistic rubrics, giving meaning to grades and focusing staff and student attention on attitudes and skills rather than a product only.

Fri 19 May

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13:45 - 15:15
SE educationSEET - Software Engineering Education and Training at Meeting Room 109
Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
13:45
15m
Talk
Persona-based Assessment of Software Engineering Student Research Projects: An Experience Report
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Chetan Arora Monash University, Laura Tubino Deakin University, Andrew Cain School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Kevin Lee Deakin University, Vasudha Malhotra Deakin University
14:00
15m
Talk
Exposing Software Engineering Students to Stressful Projects: Does Diversity Matter?
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Isabella Graßl University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau, Stefan Trieflinger Reutlingen University, Marco Kuhrmann Reutlingen University
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
“Software is the easy part of Software Engineering” - Lessons and Experiences from A Large-Scale, Multi-Team Capstone Course
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Ze Shi (Zane) Li University of Victoria, Canada, Nowshin Nawar Arony University of Victoria, Kezia Devathasan University of Victoria, Daniela Damian University of Victoria
Pre-print
14:30
15m
Talk
Attribution-based Personas in Virtual Software Engineering Education
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Klaudia Madhi School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Lara Marie Reimer School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Institute for Digital Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Stephan M. Jonas Institute for Digital Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
14:45
15m
Talk
Leveraging Diversity in Software Engineering Education through Community Engaged Learning and a Supportive Network
SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training
Nowshin Nawar Arony University of Victoria, Kezia Devathasan University of Victoria, Ze Shi (Zane) Li University of Victoria, Canada, Daniela Damian University of Victoria
Pre-print