A structured approach for managing a practical software engineering course

Work in progress — Elassys: Online tool for teamwork analysis and assessment in software engineering education

“…Instructors are prompting for fair assessment in the way that teammates will not feel like they are cheated and the possibility of intentional damaging of their score will be narrowed down [11]. Some authors [10], [13], [14] express a concern about students who are "sloughing off their responsibilities on others" but believe that most of the time this unfairness can be revealed in peer evaluation as these "hitchhikers" are deeply resented by their project colleagues. Students that are confronted with credible evidence of bad performing reported by other team members usually do not try to distort anymore the information submitted and in most cases try to catch up with the rest of the group.…”

On the Evaluation of Student Team Software Development Projects

“…Self and peer assessments are critical elements in assessment for student team software projects, but some have expressed concerns about the effectiveness of peer assessment [5,11,24]. They found evidence of teams colluding to make sure that marks were shared equally -or to punish a single group member [22,13].…”

Industry linked graduate software engineering curriculum

“…Identify the reference materials whose subject objectives match the knowledge required in 5 th , 6 th and 7 th above. 9. Design assessments that can check a candidate's knowledge at various levels for a given competency.…”

“…The challenge is to come up with a system to grade the students such that the same grading criteria can be applied to all students although they have worked on different projects [7]. Gates et al [9] identified the importance of structuring individual accountability to ensure that all members of a team contribute to the project. The scheme must include an approach for measuring the individual effort for each team member.…”