Pedagogical and Structural Analysis of SE Courses

One of the ways of improving quality of Software Engineering (SE) education is to develop mechanisms for quantitatively analyzing SE courses taught in universities. We propose a new multidimensional approach for analyzing SE courses. Two aspects are important for this analysis. One is what is covered (how much of the total SE knowledge space is covered in the course)? And second is how is it covered (how effectively SE topics and subtopics are covered in lectures)? We call the first one structural analysis and second one pedagogical analysis. Techniques and metrics for structural and pedagogical analysis of SE courses are presented in this paper together with results from implementation of the work on four SE courses.