Generic skills in software engineering master thesis projects: towards rubric-based evaluation

Summary, in English

There has been much recent interest in how to help students in higher education develop their

generic skills, especially since this is a focus of the Bologna process that aims to standardize European

higher education. However, even though the Master thesis is the final and often crucial part of a

graduate degree and requires many generic skills very little research has directly focused on them.

In particular, there is a lack of such knowledge for engineering education programs. In this paper we present results from a survey where we asked 23 students from three different Swedish universities about which generic skills are needed and developed in a Master thesis project in Software Engineering. One outcome of our analysis is that there is a lack of understanding on how to define, and thus examine, generic skills in software engineering thesis projects.

• Author: Robert Feldt; Martin Höst; Frank Lüders
• Department/s: Department of Computer Science; Software Engineering Research Group
• Publishing year: 2009
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: [Host publication title missing]
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2009.54
• Document type: Conference paper
• Topic: Computer Science
• Keywords: SoTL
• Conference name: 22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T'09)
• Conference date: 2009-02-17
• Conference place: Hyderabad, India
• Status: Published