Applying peer reviews in software engineering education: An experiment and lessons learned

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 182-193

  Garousi, Vahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design projects; Experimental study; Lessons learned; Peer review; Quantitative and qualitative analysis; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROJECTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LESSONS LEARNED; PEER REVIEW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951975847     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2008.2010994     Document Type: Article

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