20th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEET'07)
Comprehensive Evaluation of an Educational Software Engineering Simulation Environment
Dublin, Ireland
July 03-July 05
ISBN: 0-7695-2893-7
Software engineering educational approaches are often evaluated only anecdotally, or in informal pilot studies. We describe a more comprehensive approach to evaluating a software engineering educational technique (SimSE, a graphical, interactive, customizable, game-based software engineering simulation environment). Our method for evaluating SimSE went above and beyond anecdotal experience and approached evaluation from a number of differ-ent angles through a family of studies designed to assess SimSE?s effectiveness and guide its development. In this paper, we demonstrate the insights and lessons that can be gained when using such a multi-angled evaluation approach. Our hope is that, from this paper, educators will: (1) learn ideas about how to more comprehensively evaluate their own approaches, and (2) be provided with evidence about the educational effectiveness of SimSE.
Citation:
Emily Oh Navarro, Andre van der Hoek, "Comprehensive Evaluation of an Educational Software Engineering Simulation Environment," cseet, pp.195-202, 20th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEET'07), 2007