Social sensitivity and classroom team projects: An empirical investigation

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 403-408

  Bender, Lisa ^a   Walia, Gursimran ^a   Kambhampaty, Krishna ^a   Nygard, Kendall E ^a   Nygard, Travis E ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; computer science; empirical study; social sensitivity; teams

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE TASKS; COMPLEX TASK; COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS; COMPUTING DISCIPLINES; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MAJOR PROJECT; SHORT TERM; SOCIAL SENSITIVITY; STUDENT TEAMS; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TEAM PERFORMANCE; TEAM PROJECTS; TEAM WORK; TEAMS; TECHNICAL FIELDS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84858988427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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