On the Impact of a Collaborative Pedagogy on African American Millennial Students in Software Engineering

Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, Kelli M. Slaten, Sarah B. Berenson, Carolyn Seaman
2007 Proceedings / International Conference of Software Engineering  
Millennial students (those born after 1982), particularly African Americans and women, have demonstrated a propensity toward collaborative activities. We conducted a collective case study at North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T to ascertain the role of collaboration and social interaction in attracting and retaining students in information technology. Responses from semi-structured interviews with 11 representative African American students in these classes were coded and
more » ... zed. The responses from these minority students were used to evolve a social interaction model. The conjectures generated from the model suggest that pair programming and agile software methodologies effectively create a collaborative environment that is desirable to Millennial students, male and female, and, with the new evidence, minority and majority.
doi:10.1109/icse.2007.58 dblp:conf/icse/WilliamsLSBS07 fatcat:2czr3x4kuralpb5uqfgmcaagny