Peer Assessment of Group-Based Software Engineering Projects

Author

Hemer, David

Author_Institution

Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 March 2008

Firstpage

470

Lastpage

478

Abstract

Group-based software engineering projects are an important part of computer science and information technology curricula. Fair assessment of individual contributions to group-based projects remains a challenging problem. Peer-based assessment, where students assess their fellow team members, is seen as one answer to this. In this paper we discuss the key aspects that need to be addressed in order to develop a successful peer assessment method. We propose a method for carrying out peer assessments for a large software engineering class. We briefly describe a Web-based tool that we have developed to support our method, and comment on our initial experiences in using the tool.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; peer-to-peer computing; software engineering; Web-based tool; computer science-information technology curricula; group-based software engineering projects; peer-based assessment; software engineering class; Australia; Computer science; Design methodology; Fellows; Information technology; Life testing; Software engineering; Software standards; Software testing; Teamwork; peer-basedassessment; software engineering education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2008. ASWEC 2008. 19th Australian Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

ISSN

1530-0803

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3100-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483236

Filename

4483236