An analysis of software design understanding & motivation of engineering students

Jean-Christophe Bach, A. Beugnard, Jean-Loup Castaigne, Julien Mallet, Salvador Martínez Perez, M. Segarra
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Software engineering is now a well-recognized discipline in higher education. One challenge of software engineering education is to design teaching activities that empower students motivation and engagement. In this paper we present a study aimed at evaluating the understanding, motivation and perception of students with respect to software design activities. We first describe a project-based course currently taught to second-year students at IMT Atlantique, a French engineering school, and then present a questionnaire-based experiment. We asked the 44 students enrolled to the aforementioned course in the 2021 edition to answer three questionnaires (before and after the design activities and at the end of the course). The objective of this experiment is threefold: 1) evaluate the student's perception of the usefulness of the software design phase and the activity of modeling of software systems; 2) assess the evolution, if any, of this perception along the course; 3) evaluate if our course fosters student engagement. Results show that students are motivated with a good engagement all along the project and the perception of usefulness and pertinence of software design evolves in a slightly positive way.
工科学生对软件设计的理解与动机分析
软件工程现在是高等教育中公认的一门学科。软件工程教育的一个挑战是设计能够激发学生积极性和参与度的教学活动。在本文中,我们提出了一项旨在评估学生对软件设计活动的理解、动机和感知的研究。我们首先描述了一门目前在法国工程学院IMT Atlantique为二年级学生开设的基于项目的课程,然后提出了一个基于问卷的实验。我们让44名在2021年版注册上述课程的学生回答了三份问卷(设计活动前后和课程结束时)。本实验的目的有三个方面:1)评估学生对软件设计阶段的有用性和软件系统建模活动的看法;2)评估这种认知在整个过程中的演变(如果有的话);3)评估我们的课程是否能促进学生的参与。结果表明,学生在整个项目中都有良好的参与,并且对软件设计的有用性和针对性的感知以一种稍微积极的方式发展。
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