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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Fri 31 May 2019 14:00 - 14:15 at St-Denis / Notre-Dame - Novel Approaches in SE Education Chair(s): Hakan Erdogmus

Teaching using the Mastery Learning Approach involves delineating learning units and assessing each unit individually and repeatedly until a student obtains success. Mastery Learning has been shown to help students better identify and grasp fundamental concepts. We applied Mastery Learning in a second-year software construction course with roughly 450 students. We delineated 26 topics, and administered written and verbal quizzes to assess each topic. We built a quiz auto-grading, analysis, and feedback system to help cope with the scale of the class. By the end of the semester we had administered over 12K quizzes. We found evidence that students grasped both fundamental concepts and advanced concepts better than in prior semesters. Because we made two changes at once (introducing videos and Mastery Learning) it is difficult to isolate whether the Mastery Learning Approach was solely responsible, but assessment results suggest that the repeatable micro-quizzes were instrumental in these gains. Auto-grading and extensive data collection afforded us invaluable and lasting pedagogical insights because of the depth of analysis they made possible.

Fri 31 May

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14:00 - 15:30
Novel Approaches in SE EducationSoftware Engineering Education and Training / Posters at St-Denis / Notre-Dame
Chair(s): Hakan Erdogmus Carnegie Mellon University
14:00
15m
Talk
Teaching Software Construction at Scale with Mastery Learning: A Case StudySEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Elisa Baniassad University of British Columbia, Alice Campbell The University of British Columbia, Tiara Allidina The University of British Columbia, Asrai Ord The University of British Columbia
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Look What I Can Do: Acquisition of Programming Skills in the Context of Living LabsSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Mazyar Seraj University of Bremen & German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Cornelia S. Große University of Bremen, Serge Autexier German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Rolf Drechsler University of Bremen & German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Pre-print
14:30
15m
Talk
How much 'Authenticity' can be achieved in Software Engineering Project Based courses?SEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Zahra Shakeri University of Calgary, Muneera Bano Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Didar Zowghi University of Technology, Sydney
14:45
10m
Talk
Having Fun in Learning Formal SpecificationsSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Wishnu Prasetya Utrecht University, Craig Leek Utrecht University, Orestis Melkonian Utrecht University, Joris ten Tusscher Utrecht University, Jan van Bergen Utrecht University, Jasper Everink Utrecht University, Thomas van der Klis Utrecht University, Rick Meijerink Utrecht University, Roan Oosenbrug Utrecht University, Jelle Oostveen Utrecht University, Tijmen van den Pol Utrecht University, Wink van Zon Utrecht University
Pre-print
14:55
6m
Poster
A Data-driven Security Game to Facilitate Information Security Education
Posters
Dag Erik Homdrum Løvgren Acando AS, Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Tosin Daniel Oyetoyan SINTEF Digital
15:01
29m
Talk
Author Panel DiscussionSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training