Will Johnny/Joanie make a good software engineer? Are course grades showing the whole picture?

Jane Huffman Hayes; Alex Dekhtyar; Ashlee Holbrook; Olga Dekhtyar; Senthil Sundaram

doi:10.1109/CSEET.2006.42

Will Johnny/Joanie make a good software engineer? Are course grades showing the whole picture?

Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Ashlee Holbrook, Olga Dekhtyar, Senthil Sundaram

Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

Predicting future success of students as software engineers is an open research area. We posit that current grading means do not capture all the information that may predict whether students will become good software engineers. We use one such piece of information, traceability of project artifacts, to illustrate our argument. Traceability has been shown to be an indicator of software project quality in industry. We present the results of a case study of a University of Waterloo graduate-level software engineering course where traceability was examined as well as course grades (such as mid-term, project grade, etc.). We found no correlation between the presence of good traceability and any of the course grades, lending support to our argument.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006
Pages	175-182
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2006.42
State	Published - 2006
Event	19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006 - Turtle Bay, HI, United States Duration: Apr 19 2006 → Apr 21 2006

Publication series

Name	Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings
Volume	2006
ISSN (Print)	1093-0175

Conference

Conference	19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Turtle Bay, HI
Period	4/19/06 → 4/21/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Education

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10.1109/CSEET.2006.42

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Hayes, J. H., Dekhtyar, A., Holbrook, A., Dekhtyar, O., & Sundaram, S. (2006). Will Johnny/Joanie make a good software engineer? Are course grades showing the whole picture? In Proceedings - 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006 (pp. 175-182). Article 1617344 (Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings; Vol. 2006). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2006.42

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Hayes, JH, Dekhtyar, A, Holbrook, A, Dekhtyar, O & Sundaram, S 2006, Will Johnny/Joanie make a good software engineer? Are course grades showing the whole picture? in Proceedings - 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006., 1617344, Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings, vol. 2006, pp. 175-182, 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006, Turtle Bay, HI, United States, 4/19/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2006.42

Will Johnny/Joanie make a good software engineer? Are course grades showing the whole picture? / Hayes, Jane Huffman; Dekhtyar, Alex; Holbrook, Ashlee et al.
Proceedings - 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2006. 2006. p. 175-182 1617344 (Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings; Vol. 2006).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review