Teaching software psychology experimentation through team projects

Failproof Team Projects in Software Engineering Courses

The computer science department of the University of Pittsburgh offers two undergraduate and two graduate courses in software engineering in which we emphasize the importance of general engineering principles for software development. For the last ten years the undergraduate courses have been based on team projects. This structure has advantages: students see immediately the relevance of what t...

Teaching Business German through Projects

Teaching Psychology through Popular Film: A Curriculum

An undergraduate course, “Psychology and Film,” was developed as an honors elective. Each week students and the instructor viewed a feature film depicting a psychological disorder or related issue such as family dysfunction, resilience, or death and dying. Accompanying assigned readings featured first person accounts of mental health problems and psychotherapy as well as articles on using film ...

Evaluating sport psychology teaching through action research

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on action research (Norton, 2009), accompanied by an increasing focus on staff evaluation. This paper aimed to evaluate a single teaching session of a new member to the profession. Forty-three second year undergraduate students responded to a standard teaching evaluation form and the ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ method (Angelo & Cross, 1993) of eval...

Appointing Team Leads for Student Software Development Projects

Team-based software development projects can be an important component of an undergraduate computer science experience. Student teams sometimes fail, however, due to inadequate initiative, communication, and organization. Students used to individual work often do not recognize the extent of the coordination required to get their team operating in tandem, and in many cases may be reluctant to in...