Fair division as a means of apportioning software engineering class projects

Authors:
Jon Beck
Affiliations:
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In a junior- or senior-level undergraduate software engineering course that uses real-world projects for real clients, different parts of a project are inherently unequal in difficulty, time requirements, and desirability. A perennial problem is assigning portions of the project to student teams equitably. Fair division is a highly effective strategy for making an equitable, proportional, and envy-free assignment of tasks and in serving as the basis for fair grading of assignments which vary in difficulty, desirability, and time requirements.