The impact of undergraduate mentorship on student satisfaction and engagement, teamwork performance, and team dysfunction in a software engineering group project
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Mentorship schemes in software engineering education usually involve professional software engineers guiding and advising teams of undergraduate students working collaboratively to develop a software system. With or without mentorship, teams run the risk of experiencing team dysfunction: a situation where lack of engagement, internal conflicts, and/or poor team management lead to different assessment outcomes for individual team members and overall frustration and dissatisfaction within the team. The paper describes a mentorship scheme devised as part of a 33 week software engineering group project course, where the mentors were undergraduate students who had recently completed the course successfully and possessed at least a year’s experience as professional software engineers. We measure and discuss the impact the scheme had on: (1) student satisfaction and engagement, (2) team performance, and (3) team dysfunction.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2020) |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 128-134 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2020 |
| Event | ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2020 - Portland, United States Duration: 11 Mar 2020 → 14 Mar 2020 https://sigcse2020.sigcse.org/authors/cfp.html |
Conference
| Conference | ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education 2020 |
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| Abbreviated title | SIGCSE 2020 |
| Country | United States |
| City | Portland |
| Period | 11/03/20 → 14/03/20 |
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- The Impact of Undergraduate Mentorship
Rights statement: © 2020 Association for Computing Machinery. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366835.
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