Presentation
Self-Confidence of Undergraduate Students in Designing Software Architecture
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
(2022)
Abstract
Software architecture students, often, lack self-confidence in their ability to use their
knowledge to design software architectures. This paper investigates the relations between
undergraduate software architecture students’ self-confidence and their course expectations,
cognitive levels, preferred learning methods, and critical thinking. We developed a
questionnaire with open-ended questions to assess the self-confidence levels and related
factors, which was taken by one-hundred ten students in two semesters. The students
answers were coded and analyzed afterward. We found that self-confidence is weakly
associated with the students’ critical thinking and independent from their cognitive levels,
preferred learning methods, and expectations from the course. The results suggest that to
improve the self-confidence of the students, the instructors should work on improving the
students’ critical thinking capabilities.
Keywords
- education,
- software architecture,
- software engineering
Disciplines
- Education and
- Engineering
Publication Date
Fall 2022
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Citation Information
Lotfi Ben Othmane and Ameerah-Muhsina Jamil. "Self-Confidence of Undergraduate Students in Designing Software Architecture" ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lotfi-benothmane/18/
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