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In this paper we present accumulated results from two years of experience with a teaching unit on debugging Java programs. With this special teaching unit, we strive to foster the debugging skills of our students. Students were asked to find different defects in given code, to analyze these and finally to fix them. As well, students were requested to document their approach in writing. The achieved...
The student entry phase is the period of a study process in which fundamental technical and non-technical skills should be acquired. The interrelation of those skills is not only crucial for the study process itself. Rather, the systematic, well-reflected methodological usage of specific technical knowledge is a key element for the future professional career after graduation. Unfortunately, during...
How do lecturers know that their teaching is effective? If they want to formally assess this, they first have to define learning objectives that specify the intended outcome of their teaching, in terms of competencies to be developed in their students. On this basis, they can then design appropriate assessment tools, such as formal exams, that attempt to objectively measure to what extent the aspired...
First-year students are often not well equipped with the base competencies that are a necessary precondition for effectively acquiring complex new knowledge. Among others, these base competencies comprise self-organization, analytical thinking, or communication skills. Shortcomings in these competencies often lead to problems in the study process. To solve these problems, we need to investigate the...
Many freshmen students of computer science are unaware of the requirements and job profiles of their future professional domain. To provide them with a deeper insight into the requirements of their future jobs at an early point of their studies, we designed a software engineering simulation project that focuses on the main tasks a software engineer has to deal with in professional life. More precisely,...
Not all incoming students are sufficiently well endowed with those base competencies (such as self organization, analytical thinking or communication skills) that are prerequisite for acquiring complex new knowledge as well as coping with the study process itself. As lecturers, we have to be aware of our incoming students' base competency profile, in order to pick them up where they are and help them...
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