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Evaluating Didactic Approaches used by Teaching Assistants for Software Analysis and Design using UML

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D. R. Stikkolorum,

F. Gomes de Oliveira Neto,

M. R. V. ChaudronAuthors Info & Claims

ECSEE '18: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of Software Engineering Education

Pages 122 - 131

https://doi.org/10.1145/3209087.3209107

Published: 14 June 2018 Publication History

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Teaching assistants (TAs) are employed for supporting various activities of a course, from assisting with course material, grading and, predominantly, bridging the interaction between teachers and students. This role is even more significant in large courses with dozens of students, particularly during lab sessions with practical assignments. Therefore, here we explore how does the role of the TA support students to overcome the challenges they face when learning software design. During a bachelor course on Analysis and Design, we collected data from i) weekly interviews with TAs, ii) student's assignment hand-ins and iii) the corresponding feedback reports written by TAs to students. By analysing these three different sources we propose guidelines and practices for effective deployment of TAs.

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Evaluating Didactic Approaches used by Teaching Assistants for Software Analysis and Design using UML
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
      1. Unified Modeling Language (UML)

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ECSEE '18: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference of Software Engineering Education

June 2018

140 pages

ISBN:9781450363839

DOI:10.1145/3209087

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