TY - GEN
T1 - Software quality
T2 - 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010
AU - Richardson, Ita
AU - Delaney, Yvonne
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - For over ten years, the first author of this paper (IR) has been teaching Software Quality in the traditional fashion where students are presented with materials through lecture and tutorial format. Her experience has been that concepts are difficult to convey, particularly if the students do not have prior industrial experience. Additionally, standards are topics which can become very boring to teach and learn. These difficulties have resulted in an uninteresting learning environment where it is hard to gauge what learning, if any, has been undertaken by the students. Therefore, in conjunction with the second author (YD), a problem-based learning practitioner and researcher, we investigated what other teaching methodologies could be used to improve the situation. This has resulted in IR implementing a problem-based learning instructional approach in the classroom during academic year 2009-2010. Through focusing on software systems within hospitals, students within a software quality class have developed a software quality plan supported by an academic paper. Analysing the implementation of PBL in the class, we demonstrate that students have developed a greater understanding of software quality concepts and standards. consistent with the findings of Hmelo-Silver [1], it has also resulted in students experiencing and learning competencies such as team working, presentation and discussion, which are required in an industrial environment.
AB - For over ten years, the first author of this paper (IR) has been teaching Software Quality in the traditional fashion where students are presented with materials through lecture and tutorial format. Her experience has been that concepts are difficult to convey, particularly if the students do not have prior industrial experience. Additionally, standards are topics which can become very boring to teach and learn. These difficulties have resulted in an uninteresting learning environment where it is hard to gauge what learning, if any, has been undertaken by the students. Therefore, in conjunction with the second author (YD), a problem-based learning practitioner and researcher, we investigated what other teaching methodologies could be used to improve the situation. This has resulted in IR implementing a problem-based learning instructional approach in the classroom during academic year 2009-2010. Through focusing on software systems within hospitals, students within a software quality class have developed a software quality plan supported by an academic paper. Analysing the implementation of PBL in the class, we demonstrate that students have developed a greater understanding of software quality concepts and standards. consistent with the findings of Hmelo-Silver [1], it has also resulted in students experiencing and learning competencies such as team working, presentation and discussion, which are required in an industrial environment.
KW - Competencies
KW - PBL
KW - Problem-based learning
KW - Software quality
KW - Software quality plan
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78751492827&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.27
DO - 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751492827
SN - 9780769542416
T3 - Proceedings - 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010
SP - 150
EP - 155
BT - Proceedings - 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010
Y2 - 29 September 2010 through 2 October 2010
ER -
