Book chapter
Engaging software engineering students with employability skills
Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education: Delivering Non-Technical Knowledge and Skills, pp.123-160
Engineering Science Reference an imprint of IGI Global
2014
Abstract
This chapter explores the findings from an Action Research project that addressed the Professional Capability Framework (Scott & Wilson, 2002), and how aspects of this were embedded in an undergraduate Engineering (Software) degree. Longitudinal data identified the challenges both staff and students engaged with. The interventions that were developed to address these are described and discussed. The results of the project show that making soft skills attainment explicit as part of the learning objectives went a long way in assisting students to engage with the activities that exercised these skills.
Details
- Title
- Engaging software engineering students with employability skills
- Authors/Creators
- J. Armarego (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- L. Yu (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education: Delivering Non-Technical Knowledge and Skills, pp.123-160
- Publisher
- Engineering Science Reference an imprint of IGI Global; Hershey, PA
- Identifiers
- 991005544271107891
- Copyright
- © 2014 IGI Global
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Engineering and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Note
- A volume in the Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development (AHEPD) Book Series
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