Psychographic self-evaluation questionnaire for forming self-managing computer engineering capstone teams

• Autores: Muhammad Khalid Shaikh, Kamran Ahsan
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 36, no. 1 (Parte A), 2020, págs. 96-100
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A Psychographic self-evaluation questionnaire is designed for assisting students in building teams for Software Engineeringcapstone projects. The questionnaire consists of 128 questions that are formed around the team building criteria that the authorhad proposed as part of his doctoral research. The items of the questionnaire are answered on a Likert type scale with varyingnumber of choices. One hundred Computer Engineering students had participated in this research. The responses of the students onthe questionnaire were recorded in specially developed software namedPsychographd; the software had the capability to group thestudents into teams on the basis of the similarity of their responses to the questionnaire. After the formation of the groups, thestudents had worked on their capstone project for 10 months. Afterwards the cohesion among the team members was measuredusing the modified form of Group Environment Questionnaire. The results had shown that the student teams that were formedusing Psychographic self-evaluation questionnaire (and thus the proposed criteria) had high degree of cohesion. The questionnairetogether with the software (Psychographd) also helps tackles the orphan student problem effectively by guaranteeing at least oneteam for each student. The questionnaire is a result of a doctoral research. The questionnaire and the software developed on thebasis of it are now in use in the department of Computer Science, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and TechnologyKarachi, Pakistan.