Engaging Software Engineering Students with Employability Skills [chapter]

Jocelyn Armarego
Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education  
This chapter explores the findings from an Action Research project that addressed the Professional Capability Framework (Scott & Wilson, 2002) , and how aspects of this were embedded in an undergraduate Engineering (Software) degree. Longitudinal data identified the challenges both staff and students engaged with. The interventions that were developed to address these are described and discussed. The results of the project show that making soft skills attainment explicit as part of the learning
more » ... objectives went a long way in assisting students to engage with the activities that exercised these skills.
doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5800-4.ch008 fatcat:gh4fl4fpyjecrarwimmaudyub4