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ERIC Number: EJ1358059
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0899 3408
EISSN: EISSN-1744-5175
Assessing Individual Contributions to Software Engineering Projects: A Replication Study
Hundhausen, C. D.; Conrad, P. T.; Carter, A. S.; Adesope, O.
Computer Science Education, v32 n3 p335-354 2022
Background and Context: Assessing team members' indivdiual contributions to software development projects poses a key problem for computing instructors. While instructors typically rely on subjective assessments, objective assessments could provide a more robust picture. To explore this possibility, In a 2020 paper, Buffardi presented a correlational analysis of objective metrics and subjective metrics in an advanced software engineering project course (n= 41 students and 10 teams), finding only two significant correlations. Objective: To explore the robustness of Buffardi's findings and gain further insight, we conducted a larger scale replication of the Buffardi study (n = 118 students and 25 teams) in three courses at three institutions. Method: We collected the same data as in the Buffardi study and computed the same measures from those data. We replicated Buffardi's exploratory, correlational and regression analyses of objective and subjective measures. Findings: While replicating four of Buffardi's five significant correlational findings and partially replicating the findings of Buffardi's regression analyses, our results go beyond those of Buffardi by identifying eight additional significant correlations. Implications: In contrast to Buffardi's study, our larger scale study suggests that subjective and objective measures of individual performance in team software development projects can be fruitfully combined to provide consistent and complementary assessments of individual performance.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Washington; California; California (Santa Barbara)
Grant or Contract Numbers: DUE1915196