Generic skills in software engineering master thesis projects: towards rubric-based evaluation

Robert Feldt; Martin Höst; Frank Lüders

doi:10.1109/CSEET.2009.54

Generic skills in software engineering master thesis projects: towards rubric-based evaluation

Robert Feldt, Martin Höst, Frank Lüders

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Abstract

There has been much recent interest in how to help students in higher education develop their
generic skills, especially since this is a focus of the Bologna process that aims to standardize European
higher education. However, even though the Master thesis is the ﬁnal and often crucial part of a
graduate degree and requires many generic skills very little research has directly focused on them.
In particular, there is a lack of such knowledge for engineering education programs. In this paper we present results from a survey where we asked 23 students from three different Swedish universities about which generic skills are needed and developed in a Master thesis project in Software Engineering. One outcome of our analysis is that there is a lack of understanding on how to deﬁne, and thus examine, generic skills in software engineering thesis projects.

Original language	English
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DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2009.54
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T'09) - Hyderabad, India Duration: 2009 Feb 17 → …

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Conference	22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T'09)
Country/Territory	India
City	Hyderabad
Period	2009/02/17 → …

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