"You mean we have to work together!?!": A study of the formation and interaction of programming teams in a college course setting

ICER'10 - Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 41-49

  Largent, David L ^a   Lüer, Chris ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Small group development; Team; Teamwork; Tuckman small group development model

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE COURSE; EFFECTIVE TOOL; PROGRAMMING TEAMS; SKILL LEVELS; SMALL GROUPS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TEAM; TEAM DEVELOPMENT; TEAMWORK;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77956279885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839594.1839603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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