. This is particularly relevant when students are working adults and rely onemployer tuition reimbursement to fund their education, as employers often pro-rate the amount ofreimbursement based on the student’s course grade.Despite the large body of work in this area, most of the studies were conducted with undergraduatestudents. This study investigates use of PA and SA as an assessment tool for a graduate-level softwareengineering course.III. Course DescriptionThe course used in this study is a graduate level software engineering course in software constructiontaught at a large public research university in the Mid-Atlantic. The course is intended to help studentslearn and apply software engineering principles through developing a large-scale