Robyn A. McNamara, Ann E. Nicholson and David McG. Squire,
Improving Student Engagement in Software Engineering with
Computer-supported Groupwork,
In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on
Computer Science Education: Innovation & Technology and Software
Engineering & Applications,
Singapore, pp. 117-124, Global Science and Technology Forum, November 19-20 2012.When classroom activities do not explicitly encourage and support active learning, it is possible for engagement, student satisfaction, and learning outcomes to decline. We present an account of an intervention that radically re-engineered a set of classroom activities to encourage engagement through active learning without sacrificing either learning outcomes or student satisfaction.