This paper describes a study intended to understand
the ways in which students experience the process of
decision-making in computer science student projects.
It also investigates the ways the student team works
to make decisions.
The empirical setting for the study is a semesterlong
project with 22 final year computer science students.
It is a qualitative study where data are
gathered using interviews and analyzed using phenomenography.
Six categories have been identified describing how
students experience the process of decision-making in
computer science projects. The level of sophistication
differs between the categories. The first describes an
experience of decision-making as individual decisions
too small and unimportant to be handled by anyone
other than the individual. At the other end is the
experience of decision-making as a democratic process
involving both the full group and the context in which
the group acts. The other four categories are situated
between these two extremes. |
| Cite as: Wiggberg, M. (2007). Computer science students' experiences of decision making in project groups. In Proc. Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling 2007), Koli National Park, Finland. CRPIT, 88. Lister, R. and Simon, Eds. ACS. 137-148. |
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