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Undergraduates' perspective on a pedagogical architecture to requirements engineering education

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Thalia S. Santana,

Taciana N. Kudo,

Renato F. Bulcao-NetoAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '23: Proceedings of the XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 422 - 431

https://doi.org/10.1145/3613372.3614194

Published: 25 September 2023 Publication History

Abstract

The literature has revealed the misalignment between higher education and professional practice in Requirements Engineering (RE). An alternative approach to mitigate this problem is adopting a pedagogical architecture (PA), which structures and diversifies the pedagogical practice of RE theory. This paper presents the evaluation of a PA to the education on requirements specification and validation. Undergraduate students of three RE classes at a Brazilian public university experimented and evaluated, through a survey, the PA’s lesson plans, teaching materials, and practical activities. From the analysis of 153 responses, we have shown that a PA to RE education can contribute to aligning RE knowledge and essential hard and soft skills for graduating future requirements analysts.

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Macedo MBezerra CCoutinho E(2024)Uma Pesquisa Qualitativa do Contexto de Ensino em Requisitos de Software no BrasilAnais do XXXII Workshop sobre Educação em Computação (WEI 2024)10.5753/wei.2024.2577(669-679)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.5753/wei.2024.2577

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Undergraduates' perspective on a pedagogical architecture to requirements engineering education
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Software engineering education

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Macedo MBezerra CCoutinho E(2024)Uma Pesquisa Qualitativa do Contexto de Ensino em Requisitos de Software no BrasilAnais do XXXII Workshop sobre Educação em Computação (WEI 2024)10.5753/wei.2024.2577(669-679)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2024
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