Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Sue Richmond, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Kailasam Satyamurthy, Penn State University; Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

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-assessment is only an 8. This could be due to gender, as one study found female students tended to ratethemselves lower than their male counterparts (Lind, 2002), however, this is not conclusive sinceGopinath (1999) found gender was not a factor in self-assessment. It could also be due to the tendency ofsuccessful students to rate themselves lower than their peers and unsuccessful students to rate themselveshigher (Mishra, Ostrovska, & Hacaloglu 2015; Falchikov & Boud, 1989; and Gopinath, 1999). Since theinstructor did not keep any personally identifiable information we are unable to explore this further here,but plan to do so in future work.V. DiscussionThe research clearly shows that PA provides value that is distinct from the value of SA

Conference Session

Software Engineering Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Alexandria Spradlin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Thomas Rogers Bassa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

at the Federal Avi- ation Administration, Faculty Fellow at NASA Goddard Flight Research Center, and Software Quality Assurance Manager at Carrier Corporations. He is senior member of IEEE.Ms. Alexandria Spradlin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Alexandria Spradlin is attending ERAU as a graduate student studying software engineering. She is also employed as a research assistant at the Next-Generation ERAU Applied Research Lab. She hopes to continue her education after graduation from Embry-Riddle to earn a PhD in bioinformatics. She also has a keen interest in STEM education, hoping to assist in spreading her passion for mathematics and the sciences to the next generation.Mr. Thomas Rogers Bassa, Embry